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Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label democracy. Show all posts
Wednesday, 17 March 2021

Statues and Statutes

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  If we needed any more proof of the Government's inherent illiberalism, and the range of prejudice and bigotry that accompanies it, the...
Thursday, 31 October 2019

Boris Johnson - A Pericles for Our Time?

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The man who would be Pericles History can teach, warn and inspire us. If we don't understand the past, how can we fathom today? An...
Friday, 24 July 2015

Better Morons Than Mordor

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The Labour MPs who have nominated left winger Jeremy Corbyn to stand for leader are morons. So says John McTernan. Who he? He is f...
Sunday, 5 October 2014

1905 Again

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" Well, we don't need to...it's all over... " Ruling classes:  faces change but the song remains the same The Tory ...
Tuesday, 26 June 2012

So what are we fighting for again?

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"Our country can no longer speak with moral authority"                                                    - President Jimmy C...
Monday, 24 October 2011

Democracy - Time for Starting Over?

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"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly found in democracy, they will be best attained when all alike share in Gov...
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Thursday, 18 November 2010

William and Kate: why the gods are laughing

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" UNEMPLOYED WOMAN TO MARRY INTO WELFARE FAMILY", so one wag wrote online, pointedly aping the "Daily Mail"'s norma...
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Thursday, 1 October 2009

"Everything is fine today - that is our illusion." - Voltaire

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It is a widely promulagted fiction that Britain's political system is the fruition of centuries of linear development towards a liberal...