The The quarterly magazine of conservative thought In the NHS Vineyard Theodore Dalrymple Cecil Rhodes, Africa’s Saviour Jane Kelly Australia Keeps Them Out Daryl McCann Skin Whitening Creams Christie Davies President Trump? Paul Gottfried Caliphates and Crooks Euan Grant Into Darkest Oxford Pankhurst Ship of Fools Spring 2016 Vol 34 No 3 £6.00 Contents 3 Editorial Articles 18 A Whiter Shade of Pale Christie Davies 4 Labouring in the NHS Vineyard 20 A New Kind of Modern People Theodore Dalrymple Penelope Fawcett Hulme 5 President Trump? 22 Caliphates and Crooks: the crucial role of Turkey Paul Gottfried against ISIS 8 In the Tattooist’s Parlour Euan Grant Victoria Sweetwater 24 Letter from America 10 David Bowie, a Triumph of Mediocrity Mark Mantel Alistair Miller 25 The Oppression Business 12 Cecil Rhodes, Africa’s Saviour Edward Copplestone Jane Kelly 28 The Wise Wimmin of Wonga-Wonga 14 The day ISIS came into my shop Patricia Morgan Alec Marsh 30 Score a Middle-Class Chick? Join ISIS 16 Australia’s Victory over the People Smugglers Mark Griffiths Daryl McCann 31 Into Darkest Oxford Pankhurst Columns Arts and Books 33 Conservative Classic — 61 39 Scott Grønmark Jean Raspail’s Camp of the Saints on Margaret Thatcher 34 Reputations — 50 40 Anthony Daniels Gustav Fechner on Modern Architecture 36 Roy Kerridge 42 John Jolliffe 37 Eternal Life on Julian Amery Catholics – Peter Smith 43 James Houston on Old Comrades 44 Jane Kelly on James Connolly 46 Celia Haddon In future subscription payments by cheque should on Brave dogs be sent by post to 47 Peter Mullen on John Freeman The Salisbury Review, 48 Michael Simison PO Box 6317, Milton Keynes, MK10 1AU on Church music 49 Martin Dewhirst Changes of address or other enquiries should be on The coming Putin Winter sent to the same address or emailed to 50 Patrick Keeney [email protected] or by phone to on Reforming the Jihadis 01908 281601 52 FILM: Bridge of Spies Credit card payments by phone Merrie Cave 01908 281601 53 MUSIC - Michael Simison on the Classical Ego 54 IN SHORT Editor: Myles Harris Managing Editor: Merrie Cave Consulting Editors: Roger Scruton Lord Charles Cecil, Jane Kelly, Christie Davies PO Bo 6317, Milton Keynes, MK10 1AU Tel: 01908 281601 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.salisburyreview.com ou might be forgiven for thinking that if we Lisbon Treaty. In referenda held by France and Holland vote to leave the EU in June, it will happen. on the accepting the European Constitution it did the Of course some foot stamping in Brussels is same. In France politicians went behind voters’ backs Yto be expected, but within a year Britain would be out and reversed what they decided. In Holland a massive of the EU, trading on its own, restricting immigration, rejection vote was ignored. Even if we vote ‘yes’ we face even talking about withdrawing from the International the same. Martin Schultz has promised the European Court of Human Rights – not an EU institution. We Parliament will vote down any conditions not to their may even be considering a new treaty with the Old liking. Commonwealth, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, Having come away almost empty handed from emphasising our joint Anglo Saxon inheritance. Brussels Cameron could have seized the chance of his Anybody who settled here before the referendum political career and recommended leaving. We could would be allowed to stay, which is as well since then have practically anything we wanted. Europe’s EU migrants, especially the politicians know the EU would Poles, are largely responsible for collapse within a couple of years our recent economic recovery. of us leaving, which is why Dave Getting up on time, listening to was treated like a political Ebola your customers, going to church virus as he toured the continent. on Sunday and washing your Better to close your eyes and neck are the essential activities ears to such a messenger of the that lie behind commercial obvious. A straight ‘No’ would success, activities no longer open them. practiced by a substantial But if we leave in June will number of the British working the divorce go ahead? There is class who prefer to stay in bed, the question of alimony. Who unwashed and on benefits. contributed most to this rotten political marriage? Most will vote to stay if they vote at all. The EU Deciding that will be a lawyers’ feast compared with repeatedly comes bottom of the list of what worries which the Bloody Sunday Massacre enquiry – £195 people most. EU migration aside, they are grateful for million to m’learned friends over twelve years – was free medical treatment and the capping of mobile phone pocket money. Every single treaty we signed, every charges throughout Europe. But they believe Cameron tariff we set, every rule we agreed with the EU over the when he says if we leave every family will be £3500 past fifty years, will be combed over. It will take years, worse off and the French will open the gates of Calais and until it is over Brussels can claim we have not left, and thousands of Muslims will pour on to the South and are still subject to its rules. In the end like some Coast. desperate spouse who cannot get away from his wife, Yet even if we vote to leave, the EU, like some mad Britain will take refuge in the attic in the form of some old wife refusing to acknowledge it’s all over for a special ‘arrangement’ with the EU, neither in nor out, dreadful nagging marriage, will demand a new hearing perhaps with a separate entrance for special visa rights of the divorce. Berlaymont will order Britain back to with the old Commonwealth. the ballot box and to keep returning until we give the The madness is that while most Britons object to ‘right’ answer. It did so when Ireland said ‘no’ to the free movement within the EU, a majority say they will The Salisbury Review — Spring 2016 3 vote ‘yes’ to stay in. Hasn’t any politician told them Russia’s growing influence in the Middle East? First of the Great Immigration to come? Washington and would come visa-free travel for Turkey’s seventy five Brussels are determined in the next few years to bring million people followed by settlement rights. Now that Turkey into the EU; Brussels to aggrandise itself, is what I call free movement. Washington to bind Turkey to the west in the face of Back to Contents Labouring in the NHS Vineyard Theodore Dalrymple eople often talk as if they believed that there of the excellent nursing sisters who looked after my could be a world without untoward events. There mother in her last illness when I made it clear that I Pis a terrorist outrage: the security services have did not consider her inexorable decline to be in any failed. There is a miscarriage of justice: the judges are respect their fault. fools. A patient dies: the doctors are incompetent and In the course of my friend’s illness which, alas, proved the nurses cruel. It is almost as if there were a giant fatal, he was located in three wards (if intensive care for conspiracy afoot to subvert the ideal normal in which a spell between the two other locations be considered we should otherwise live. a ward). All three were clean and, what would have This is not to say that nobody ever makes culpable been extremely important to me as a patient, as silent as mistakes, that sheer idiocy and gross negligence could reasonably have been expected. There was none never take place and have no effect of the terrible nightmarish clatter on human affairs. I have never that I remembered in the hospital in heard anyone ask, when bringing which I worked until my retirement, forth a miscarriage of justice as and which the management seemed a condemnation of the justice to consider unimportant. system, what proportion of such The visitors behaved well, miscarriages are to be expected. unquestioningly obeying instructions But given Man’s imperfections, (for example, by not being more even preventable mistakes are never than two at a time by a bed), not altogether preventable; nor are such raising their voices, and in general mistakes proof of malice. He who comporting themselves with an expects perfection is doomed to appropriately subdued cheerfulness perpetual irritation, but it is worse and almost a camaraderie. All the than that: he will never count his wards, of course, were for very blessings, or even notice that they are blessings, for ill people, and perhaps the presence of near-death perfection is for him the default setting of the world. forces people to bethink themselves. Even when the Recently an old and close friend of mine was exit to the car park failed to work properly, which in admitted to a provincial hospital with a very serious other circumstances might have been taken almost illness. Naturally I was on the qui vive for deficiencies for a casus belli, was accepted with equanimity and in his care, for newspapers rarely carry headlines such without the rancour that seems to infect so much of our as ‘4000 operations done today without complications’ daily lives. When your loved ones are wrestling with or ‘5000 cured patients discharged from hospital today.’ death, you do not complain of having to wait for thirty From reading the newspapers one might gather that the seconds at a car park barrier. It would seem callow to do main business of hospitals was cutting off the wrong so; you would expose to your own view the triviality, leg, spreading infection and missing diagnoses.