Worse than British imperialism is imperialism that lacks self-awareness.
Tag: Christopher Hitchens
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.
