The seats May failed to court in 2017 could be about to turn.
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Benjamin Disraeli, Richard Nixon, and the modern Republican Party
A seminal moment in Nixon's intellectual evolution came when he read Robert Blake’s biography of Disraeli and came to the conclusion that “Tory men with liberal policies” held the key to electoral success.
A final thought on ‘Blood, Class, and Empire’
Worse than British imperialism is imperialism that lacks self-awareness.
I now understand why Boris Johnson banned the phrase ‘special relationship’
The phrase may sound needy to some British ears, but to Americans it is a source of comfort.
The war we abandoned too soon
How much misery could have been averted if, in this case, the Allies had stayed the course?
When even Winston Churchill was tempted by ‘Basic English’
"Newspeak" — the pared down monstrosity of a language invented by George Orwell in "1984" — drew its inspiration from, perhaps unsurprisingly, an academic at Cambridge.
About this blog
This blog is fundamentally a vanity project, a ruse to compel my thoughts to take written form.
