war – A S H Smyth http://www.ashsmyth.com Will write for money Sat, 09 Jul 2022 16:45:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.4 On Uncertain Ground http://www.ashsmyth.com/on-uncertain-ground/ http://www.ashsmyth.com/on-uncertain-ground/#respond Tue, 28 Jun 2022 15:19:41 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=3352 In which I, ASH Smyth, High Anglican atheist, descendant of Huguenots, dissenters, Presbyterians, Church of Ireland types, and maybe even Quakers, make my Catholic press debut, on Phil Klay’s Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War.

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For The Catholic Herald

]]> http://www.ashsmyth.com/on-uncertain-ground/feed/ 0 Crimean punishment http://www.ashsmyth.com/crimean-punishment/ http://www.ashsmyth.com/crimean-punishment/#respond Tue, 07 Jun 2022 16:26:33 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=3355 Attempting – unsuccessfully – to get my head round the roots of the Ukraine war, via Orlando Figes’ magisterial Crimea.

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For Perspective

]]> http://www.ashsmyth.com/crimean-punishment/feed/ 0 Longdon pride http://www.ashsmyth.com/longdon-pride/ http://www.ashsmyth.com/longdon-pride/#respond Tue, 10 May 2022 16:36:58 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=3357 In the run-up to the 40th anniversary commemorations, a review of James O’Connell’s step-by-step first-hand account of one of the Falklands War’s bloodiest battles.

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For Perspective

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For Perspective magazine

]]> http://www.ashsmyth.com/eerie-ness/feed/ 0 Turned out nice again http://www.ashsmyth.com/3309-2/ http://www.ashsmyth.com/3309-2/#respond Fri, 28 Jan 2022 18:10:14 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=3309 With the 40th anniversary of the Falklands conflict imminent, two Brits – one Stanley-based and one in Buenos Aires – discuss that ‘hottest’ of all conversational potatoes… the weather.

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For The Emigre

]]> http://www.ashsmyth.com/3309-2/feed/ 0 Hiroo-worship http://www.ashsmyth.com/hiroo-worship/ http://www.ashsmyth.com/hiroo-worship/#respond Mon, 25 Oct 2021 17:39:46 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=3288 Review of Werner Herzog’s Das Dämmern der Welt – or (probably) The Twilight/Dawn (of the?) World.

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For Perspective

]]> http://www.ashsmyth.com/hiroo-worship/feed/ 0 A Kentish field (June 6, 2019) http://www.ashsmyth.com/in-a-kentish-field-june-6-2019/ http://www.ashsmyth.com/in-a-kentish-field-june-6-2019/#respond Sun, 06 Jun 2021 22:01:11 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=3233 Between the dungheap
and the budding field of rape,
a line of poppies.

]]> http://www.ashsmyth.com/in-a-kentish-field-june-6-2019/feed/ 0 Beneath the mountains http://www.ashsmyth.com/beneath-the-mountains/ http://www.ashsmyth.com/beneath-the-mountains/#respond Sat, 22 May 2021 16:31:19 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=3220 Review of Alexandria: the Quest for the Lost City, by Edmund Richardson.

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For The Spectator

]]> http://www.ashsmyth.com/beneath-the-mountains/feed/ 0 The One That Got Away – Sandranathan Rubatheesan http://www.ashsmyth.com/the-one-that-got-away-sandranathan-rubatheesan/ http://www.ashsmyth.com/the-one-that-got-away-sandranathan-rubatheesan/#respond Sun, 18 Oct 2020 10:39:43 +0000 http://www.ashsmyth.com/?p=3149 The Sri Lankan journalist and photographer talks about the greatest shot he never got… and one he did.

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For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

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For The Critic

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