Duchy properties are also eligible for the funding if they are deemed by officials to be of “local historical importance”. A Guardian analysis suggests the 2020 policy gave the duchy licence to spend bona vacantia on roughly half of its property portfolio. The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Arabian Empire, is a profound modification in the ideas of the peoples....The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought....The present epoch is one of these critical moments in which the thought of mankind is undergoing a process of transformation. The title of the book is a reference to Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West. Buchanan argues that the culture that produced western civilization as traditionally understood is in its death throes in the United States which will no longer be a western country by the year 2050. [1] He uses United Nations population statistics to analyze the recent trends in global populations, especially major declines in European nations and major increases in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It is not by chance that social democracy and welfare states have worked best in small, homogeneous countries, where issues of trust and mutual suspicion do not arise so acutely. A willingness to pay for other people’s services and benefits rests on the understanding that they in turn will do likewise for you and your children: because they are like you and see the world as you do. Conversely, where immigration and visible minorities have altered the demography of a country, we typically find suspicion of others and a loss of enthusiasm for the institutions of the welfare state. Upgrades include new roofs, double-glazing windows, boiler installations and replacements of doors and lintels. One document references the renovation of an old farmhouse in Yorkshire, helping transform it into a high-end residential let. Another upgrade is helping turn a farm building into commercial offices.

Early feminists had been fiercely antiabortion. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, organized of the first women's rights convention in 1848, called abortion "a disgusting and degrading crime"...And Susan B. Anthony, early crusader for the women's vote, wrote that 'No matter what the motive...the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life; it will burden her soul in death." It was in fact the 19th century feminists who campaigned to pass the laws that criminalized abortion." The depiction of the Indigenous warrior in the painting, by kneeling with his chin on his fist and looking at General Wolfe, has been analyzed in various ways. In art, the touching of one's face with one's hand is a sign of deep thought and intelligence (thus, Auguste Rodin's The Thinker). Some consider it an idealization inspired by the noble savage concept. Original items of clothing that were used as a model for portraying the warrior in the painting can be found in the British Museum's collection (as well as additional First Nations' artifacts used in other paintings by West). [5] In death, General Wolfe gained fame as a national hero. He became an icon of Great Britain's victory during the Seven Years' War to people throughout the British Empire. [1] There were lines to see this painting stretching out the door at its first exhibition in London. [2] Details [ edit ] Three sources familiar with the duchy’s expenditure confirmed the estate was using revenues collected from dead citizens to refurbish its profitable property portfolio, making considerable savings for the estate. One said duchy insiders regarded the bona vacantia expenditure, which has until now not been publicly disclosed, as akin to “free money” and a “slush fund”.The policy imposes some restrictions on how the money can be spent – prohibiting, for example, its use on kitchen fittings, floor coverings and minor electrical works. But the funds can be spent renovating walls, foundations, floors and chimneys, as well as replacing doors, conducting rewiring or damp-proofing, or installing thermal insulation. As conservative scholar Robert Nisbet reminds us, boredom "is one of the most insistent and universal (of the) forces that have shaped human behavior," and the "range of cures or termination of boredom is a wide one." High among them are sex, narcotics, and revolution. In the 1960s, what Arnold Toynbee called an "internal proletariat" of students, bored with their studies, encountered graduate instructors, bored with their subjects and unexciting lives- a combustible mixture." Despite the fact that the painting is a more dramatized version of Wolfe's death than reality, West's work was groundbreaking for art of its time. [11] Previously, contemporary scenes were painted in a Greek and Roman setting. Others advised West against using realistic 18th-century visuals such as modern costumes. Although Wolfe's death had already been painted by at least two other artists before West, and both paintings also strove to portray Wolfe and his death in a more realistic style, the success of West's painting helped to further establish a new style of art that others had already begun to pioneer. [1] Wolfe's death and the portrayal of that event by Benjamin West make up half of Simon Schama's historical work Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations (1991). Properties identified in other leaked documents as eligible for use of the funds include town houses, holiday lets, rural cottages, agricultural buildings, a former petrol station and barns, including one used to facilitate pheasant and partridge shoots in Yorkshire. And then came the gut-punch of realization that brought to the surface the questions I'd never asked properly: "What gives me the strength to carry on against impossible odds? Is there anything I believe that is worth sacrificing for?"

a b c Madill, Shirley (2018). Robert Houle: Life & Work. Toronto: Art Canada Institute. ISBN 978-1-4871-0170-1. Buchanan argues that the United States has a " nation within a nation" already. The population of 30 million foreign born (of which 11 million are "illegal aliens") is larger than the entire population of Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Patrice Guillamaud, philosopher, author notably of Joy and Hope (Cerf, 2019) and The nation (Kime, 2022).

The agony of the West is there. In a world where Christianity no longer prospers except in South America, we are condemned to wait, in Europe, for our eventual salvation by Providence alone. Not to honor Dr. King today is intolerable. When Arizona voted not to have a holiday for King, the state was theatened with loss of the Super Bowl and convention boycotts, and berated by the national press. The pressure and abuse were so unbearalbe that the state overturned a popular vote and ratified the holiday. Only then was Arizona permitted to rejoin the Union."

Fryd, Vivien Green. "Rereading the Indian in Benjamin West's 'Death of General Wolfe.'" American Art, Vol. 9, No. 1. (Spring, 1995), pp.72–85. Online document from Jstor Correction: no nation in history has gone through a demographic change of this magnitude in so short a time, and remained the same nation. Mr. Clinton assured us that it will be a better America when we are all minorities and realize true “diversity.” Well, those students are going to find out, for they will spend their golden years in a Third World America.Buchanan frequently alternates in this way from exposing the inventors of the ideologies of death to exposing the moral weakness of those foolish enough to adopt and live by these ideas. Did these ideologies arise as the natural consequences of pervasive, antecedent hedonism, or were they the cause of it? Buchanan does not hazard a guess, but more than one Catholic moral writer has concluded that the rationalization for self-indulgence follows after the fact, not before it. I went into this knowing next to nothing about the author. I have to round up to 5 stars simply because his conclusions were so accurate–conclusions he made 20 years ago that are possibly more relevant now than ever. Sex, fame, money, power - those are what our new America is all about. ... The new hedonism seems unable to give people a reason to go on living. ... Now that all the Western empires are gone, Western Man, relieved of his duty to civilize and Christianize mankind, reveling in luxury in our age of self-indulgence, seems to have lost his will to live and reconciled himself to his impending death." (Buchanan, The Death of the West, Introduction) Why is this happening? Socialism, the beatific vision of European intellectuals for generations, is one reason. 'If everyone has the promise of a state pension, children are no longer a vital insurance policy against want in old age, ' argues Dr John Wallace of Bologna's Johns Hopkins University: 'If women can earn more than enough to be financially independent, a husband is no longer essential. And if you can also have sex and not babies- and this seems to be true now of Catholic Italy as it is of secular Britain- why marry?"