Reader, I promise thee here such things, which ordinarily promised, doe seeme to challenge the greatest attention, and I lay them here before thine eyes, whether thou regard the dignity or profit of the matter treated of, or the right method of handling it, or the honest motive, and good advice to undertake it, or lastly the moderation of the Authour.
Caliban the wild man
Man in the state of nature is the commonplace of Enlightenment thought, and the man who makes the chasm dividing philosophies to this day. He is ...
Top people are people too
There is nothing I can write to better Sarah Vine’s heartfelt piece in the Mail this morning on the sundering of personal friendships by the ...
It’s not about Europe
To the European readers of this blog. you will have been puzzled over the last three and a half years about what is going on in the political ...
Challenging the challenges
Judicial review is not meant to happen: officials make decisions because the law says they can, so the law only has a place in enforcing those ...
Vive L’Empereur?
Thanks to Guido for this snippet from the Liberal Democrat conference, in which Guy Verhofstadt takes the stand for that political party (hardly a ...
Turbulent parliamentarians; the Cromwell approach
His way was to get the supreme power conferred upon him by Parliament. Therefore he called a Parliament, and gave it the supreme power, to the end ...
Counter-cheque Quarrelsome
If one word of public discourse curdles in the ear it is ‘lie’. It is a lazy word and ironically a dishonest one. It is a word issued ...
Cromwell and the parliaments
The year 1642 is seared on the consciousness as Parliament squares of against the government, bur 1653 should be too. Certain comfortable ...