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Category Archives: England
Nigel Farage
On the morning of July 7, 2026, Nigel Farage (b. 1964) walked into Reform UK’s headquarters at Millbank, a short walk along the Thames from the Parliament he had spent thirty years attacking and two years occupying. He was sixty-two. … Continue reading
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Dominic Cummings: A Biography
The chief adviser arrived half an hour late to his own press conference. It was May 25, 2020, a hot bank holiday Monday, and Dominic Cummings (b. 1971) walked out of the back of 10 Downing Street into the rose … Continue reading
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Two Runners, Two Deaths: The Hero Systems of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams
A man walks into Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in the autumn of 1919, and the first thing he reads is a list of the dead. The names of the men who did not come back from France are fresh … Continue reading
Henty’s Catechism: The Hero System of the Adventure Novel
The headmaster holds the book in both hands before he gives it across. The cover is dark cloth stamped with gilt, a soldier and a flag, and the page edges carry the green-gold wash the binders call olivine. The boy … Continue reading
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The Anthropology of Margaret Thatcher
In his 2018 book, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities, John J. Mearsheimer wrote: My view is that we are profoundly social beings from the start to the finish of our lives and that individualism is of secondary … Continue reading
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Henty’s Classroom: Adventure Fiction and the Reproduction of Victorian Britain
George Alfred Henty holds a peculiar place in the cultural history of Victorian Britain. Memory reduces him to a writer of boys’ adventure stories. The reduction misses most of what he was. Henty stood at the crossing point of journalism, … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of The UK Now
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are operating at full Whitehall throttle in No. 10, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, the Ministry of Defence, and the Treasury strategy rooms right now. With the U.S.-Israeli campaign grinding into its second month, Khamenei … Continue reading
I’m like the guy who reads Playboy for the articles
Even though I do not share the worldview of the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Apple News Plus, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, I subscribe for the articles. I don’t pay for the comfort of … Continue reading
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Camilla Cavendish
Is that an awesome English name or what? “Camilla Cavendish!” I just love to say it. It’s all class, like Luke Ford. According to the FT: “A former associate editor and chief leader writer of The Times, she is a … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for England’s Master Institutions
England’s high-status actors do not compete for power by openly claiming it. They compete by invoking moral languages that frame their authority as constitutional, responsible, and necessary for national stability. This is the core insight of David Pinsof‘s Alliance Theory. … Continue reading