Puritanism Archive

  • Policing Sexual Conduct

    An Abhorrent Assault on Sexual Freedom

    Jane Fae argues that the conclusions of the New Labour Sexual Offences Review are incoherent, puritanical and oppressive.

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  • In Defense of Poetry

    In Defense of Poetry

    'Education for Leisure' brilliantly evokes the inner life of a lost and unemployed loser and implicitly explores the psychological motivations behind a knife-crime. The consciously unnamed narrator struggles to deal with feelings of haplessness, absurdity and suffers an unconvincing relationship with reality:

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  • Art Bollox at the Bug Bazaar

    Art Bollox at the Bug Bazaar

    “Over the past few hundred years, at least in Europe, religion has waned, but we have not become less obsessed with imprinting a human meaning on things. A thin secular idealism has become the dominant attitude to life. The world has come to be seen as something to be remade in our own image. The idea that the aim of life is not action but contemplation has almost disappeared.

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