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Columns 23 and 24 formed part of a long-running correspondence beginning with an essay by Chris Joyce, “Meeting in Meaning”, that appeared in Modern Age, and a comment by Richard Stotesbury in Words in Edgeways. The whole, including Dr Joyce’s original essay, is now collected as
Leavis and Philosophy
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Correspondence about this correspondence read          Link to Modern Age

Number 1, 7 March 2008
How UKIP can force a Referendum
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Number 2, 14 March 2008
A Magazine of Real Art Criticism
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Number 3, 21 March 2008
What are Banks For?
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Number 4, 28 March 2008
In Memoriam Paul Scofield
(and in Comminationem Peter Brook)

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Correspondence read

Number 5, 4 April 2008
Churchspeak
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Correspondence read

Number 6, 11 April 2008
Ikons and Images
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Correspondence read

Number 7, 18 April 2008
A Really Good Book [Mounce on Empiricism]
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Number 8, 30 April 2008
The Spectator 1
Revolution with an Acceptable Face
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Number 9, 9 May 2008
The Spectator 2
The Colonel’s Lady and Judy O’Grady
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“The Great Lives, the Only Treasures”
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Number 10, 16 May 2008
The Unique Genius of Dickens
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Correspondence read

Number 11, 23 May 2008
Farewell Eye
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Number 12, 30 May 2008
The Spectator 3
How Sacred is Allan Massie?
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Number 13, 6 June 2008
Brief extracts from
Mullen’s Word and Phrasebook of
Contemporary English

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Number 14, 13 June 2008
Public Benefit and Love
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Number 15, 20 June 2008
News from Ireland
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Number 16, 27 June 2008
“Made for Television”
a review of Owen Meany
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Correspondence read

Number 17, 4 July 2008
English Stressed
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Number 18, 11 July 2008
Boy from Bratsilava
a poem by Christopher Morgan
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Number 19, 18 July 2008
Review of a Review
how not to talk about D. H. Lawrence
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Number 20, 25 July 2008
Is Dishonesty the Best Policy
for the Church of England?
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Correspondence read

Number 21, 1 August 2008
review of
Jackdaw & Other Tales
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Number 22, 8 August 2008
A. I. Solzhenitsyn 1918–2008
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Number 25, 29 August 2008
Olympics, Farewell and Hale!
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Number 26, 12 September 2008
A Brief Glance at Creation
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Number 27, 19 September 2008
The Very Last Night of the Proms
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Number 28, 26 September 2008
Barack Obama’s Autobiography
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Number 29, 3 October 2008
The Satellite Mind
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Number 30, 10 October 2008
A Disagreement with The Jackdaw
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Number 31, 17 October 2008
Leavis’s Mis-emphasis in James
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Number 32, 24 October 2008
Is Correct Language Politically Incorrect?
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Number 33, 31 October 2008
Why does Hareton Earnshaw love Heathcliff?
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A Reply by M. B. Mencher read

Number 34, 7 November 2008
A Letter from Michael Wallerstein to Charles Moore
on the occasion of the latter’s boasting about his ignorance

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Correspondence read

Number 35, 14 November 2008
Charity as Cliché
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Correspondence read

Number 36, 21 November 2008
The Science of Things in General
in
Sartor Resartus
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Number 37, 28 November 2008
Cultural Studies
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Correspondence read

Number 38, 5 December 2008
The Preponderance of George P. Grant
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Number 39, 12 December 2008
A Few Poems by Frances Copsey
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Number 40, 19 December 2008
A Table Liturgy before Christmas Dinner
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Number 41, 28 December 2008
A Thought for Innocents’ Day
addressed to orthodox Trinitarian Christians

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Number 42, 20 February 2009
Living and Dying by the Media: Jade Goody
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Number 43, 1 March 2009
A Letter to the Editors of
The Oxford English Dictionary
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Number 44, 21 April 2009
A Question about Weddings
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Number 45, 04 June 2009
Brief Notes on the Misery
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Number 46, 26 June 2009
A Novel by David Lodge
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Number 47, 27 August 2009
Engineering Misery
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Correspondence read

Number 48, 03 September 2009
Lawrence and Leavis
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Number 49, 25 October 2009
Peter Mullen’s Reply
to a kind invitation from the Pope

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Number 50, 5 November 2009
The Conservatives and the EU
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Number 51, 29 November 2009
Diana’s Funeral as Defining Moment
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Number 52, 6 December 2009
A Little Book of Arsehole English
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Number 53, 18 December 2009
A Yuletide Quiz
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Number 54, 6 January 2010
The Ravenna Magi
an Epiphany poem by
Richard Gill
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Number 55, 26 February 2010
The Pursuit of Happiness
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Number 56, 28 March 2010
Fasting for Lent
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Number 57, 2 June 2010
Novel as Criticism: a Review
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