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"It has been the misfortune of this age, that everything is to be discussed, as if the constitution of our country were to be always a subject rather of altercation than enjoyment." - Edmund Burke anticipates the Neverendum

Monday, December 30, 2013

What if Germany had won the Great War?

"What on earth made Stauffenberg and the rest of those behind the 1944 plot to kill Hitler think the Allies would be interested in a ne...

Thursday, October 24, 2013

For Norman Geras

I'm late - again. Like so many who followed his blog and corresponded with him, I was not surprised, yet shocked nevertheless, to hear ...

Wednesday, October 09, 2013

Revolution and the cult of youth

Is the Secretary for Education Michael Gove leading a revolution in English education? I don't live and work there so I can't be su...

Saturday, October 05, 2013

On Appeasement

James Bloodworth rightly takes issue with those who would make the Cold War a simplistic 'goodies vs baddies' narrative. His is no...

With enemies like these...

Ever had a disagreement with someone and then remembered too late something you could have said that would have been a witty and winning lin...

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