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Why 2019 might not be a repeat of 2017’s snap election

On November 21, 2019 By Cavalier 1In Uncategorized

The seats May failed to court in 2017 could be about to turn.

Benjamin Disraeli, Richard Nixon, and the modern Republican Party

On November 7, 2019 By Cavalier 1In Uncategorized

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’

On October 11, 2019October 11, 2019 By Cavalier 1In Uncategorized

Worse than British imperialism is imperialism that lacks self-awareness.

I now understand why Boris Johnson banned the phrase ‘special relationship’

On October 9, 2019October 9, 2019 By Cavalier 1In Uncategorized

The phrase may sound needy to some British ears, but to Americans it is a source of comfort.

The war we abandoned too soon

On September 30, 2019 By Cavalier 1In Uncategorized1 Comment

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’

On September 27, 2019September 27, 2019 By Cavalier 1In UncategorizedLeave a comment

"Newspeak" — the pared down monstrosity of a language invented by George Orwell in "1984" — drew its inspiration from, perhaps unsurprisingly, an academic at Cambridge.

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On July 7, 2019September 27, 2019 By Cavalier 1In UncategorizedLeave a comment

This blog is fundamentally a vanity project, a ruse to compel my thoughts to take written form.

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