On Turncoats and Tories: Quote of the Day
A couple of passages from Number 33 of John Wilkes’ The North Briton, published January 15th 1763, seem appropriate as battalions of ‘Eurosceptic’ ministers like Theresa May line up to pretend they...
View ArticleWhere’s Herod when you need him?
Oscar Wilde’s line about the rage of Caliban not seeing himself in the mirror has been taken to heart in the last week or so by young people claiming to be suffering from profound emotional...
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This week’s coup d’état in the High Court – in which some oleaginous tort-wallopers revealed to a fascinated electorate that the best way to implement voters’ instructions is to put them in the hands...
View Article2016 – A Review
Somewhere or other (you don’t get proper footnotes at this time of year) Karl Popper urged anyone masochistic enough to be reading his stuff to guard against the fashionable disease of our time, viz.-...
View ArticleHer Majesty’s Government v The European Commission: Pre-Match Special
Readers may perhaps have become dimly aware by now that the British government, led by one Theresa May MP, a greyish kind of Stan Laurel whose act would benefit considerably from teaming up with...
View ArticleQuote of the Day
Offered without additional comment: “We are plainly told, that though we are passengers in the state-vessel, and see the pilot going to run her on the rocks, and make a wreck of her, and a boat...
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A message from the eighteenth century for those Conservative eurosceptics currently polluting the airwaves and social media with oleaginous and transparently mendacious expressions of support for the...
View ArticleLes aristocrates à la lanterne…
“Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now...
View ArticleEuropean Election 2019 Special
It’s official: Britain goes to the polls again on May 23rd, this time for elections to the European Parliament. It is a mere three years since the electorate instructed the government to leave the...
View ArticleBrexit: Lament for a Failed Revolution
It is a reasonable guess that the final thoughts of Vercingetorix, having given himself up at the Battle of Alesia and spent five years in Roman dungeons before being dragged in chains through the...
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