Now look how many sorts of things there are which properly fall within the cognizance of humane reason, into so many branches does the tree of philosophy divide it selfe. And from the diversity of the matter about which they are conversant, there hath been given to those branches a diversity of Names too
Hobbes: De Cive
Action
- Action: a Powers and Bodies Bill
- Eschatological Rebellion
- Housing: courting injustice – 1
- Our plan for the new Prime Minister
- Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have – 1
- Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have – 2
- Register the establishment
- Rules for conservatives?
- The Curses of Caesarea
- The doctor and the silent usurpers
- The Long March: conspiracy or accident?
America
Brexit
- Accidental spies; useful idiots
- Aggressive timidity exploited
- Agree, withdraw and move to Stage 2
- Are we European though, or Anglospherical?
- Believe in the bin
- Bishops to mend a broken Britain?
- Brexit moment 1688
- Brexit moment 1714
- Build the bridge, now
- Burke on Ambitious Parliaments
- Every man to do his duty
- Exclusive leaked footage of Brexit talks
- Fixing the Withdrawal Agreement
- Gyimah gymnastics
- Has the hour of the SDP come at last?
- Have I missed something…?
- Headdesk, again. What next?
- I don’t know what has happened but…
- If it prosper
- It’s not about Europe
- Liberals, conservatives and the Jordan Peterson thesis
- Mindless commentary; victorless result; pointless election
- Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations
- Operation Casement: still no arrests
- Quid pro quo: repeal Section 13
- Right, Bill; it’s up to you now
- Securing the exit endgame
- Supreme Tangle
- Tempestuous climate on QT
- The Alliance revolution, possibly
- The vote and the trust issue
- Theresa shoots for an open own-goal
- Top people are people too
- Treason, stupidity, recklessness or hypocrisy?
- Vive L’Empereur?
- Westminster in the exit endgame
- What happens next for Boris?
Constitution
- Brexit moment 1714
- Court of Session – Inner House prorogation full judgment published
- Court of Session prorogation case: full judgment published
- Military coup in Westminster
- Murmuring the (supreme) judges – 3
- Murmuring the Judges – 1
- Murmuring the judges – 2
- Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations
- On popular grievances
- Puritans and the Pilgrim
- Register the establishment
- Some Foolish Opinions Of Lawyers Concerning The Making Of Lawes
- Supreme Tangle
- The Long March: conspiracy or accident?
Fay Kinuise
- 101 Uses for a Dumped MP
- Chuka who chucked ChUK chuckles and swallows the bird
- Court of Session – Inner House prorogation full judgment published
- Court of Session prorogation case: full judgment published
- Exclusive leaked footage of Brexit talks
- Magical Scottish town appears briefly from the mist
- New comedy act opens in Brighton
- Operation Casement: still no arrests
- Revealed: why Britain did not reach the Moon first
- Rory Roars off into the sunset
- Sarah Wollaston joins Plaid Cymru
- Ten new Constituencies now under offer
- The Leadership election falls asleep again
History
- Brexit moment 1688
- Brexit moment 1714
- Cromwell and the parliaments
- Cromwell despairs of Parliament again
- Dark times and better times
- Depart, I say; and let us have done with you
- Every man to do his duty
- Honest, Georgian elections
- Military coup in Westminster
- Pitt triumphant
- Puritans and the Pilgrim
- Treaties bedevil a wayward parliament, 1644
- Turbulent parliamentarians; the Cromwell approach
Inside the Bubble
- 101 Uses for a Dumped MP
- Agree, withdraw and move to Stage 2
- And then there were seven
- Believe in the bin
- Bizarre self-defenestrations
- Boris, the chosen one
- Brecon and Radical Rethink
- Chuka who chucked ChUK chuckles and swallows the bird
- Conservative Conference 2019: The Speech
- Conservative Conference Report: Day 3
- Counter-cheque Quarrelsome
- Court of Session – Inner House prorogation full judgment published
- Court of Session prorogation case: full judgment published
- Downing Street: and so it begins
- Exclusive leaked footage of Brexit talks
- Five try to squeeze through one door
- From the Conservative Conference 2019
- Green light, red faces, and Amber
- Gyimah gymnastics
- Has the hour of the SDP come at last?
- Have I missed something…?
- How would I answer last night’s leadership questions?
- I don’t know what has happened but…
- If it prosper
- Is Boris Good Enough?
- It’s not about Europe
- Jeremy, hunted by his own quick hounds
- Leadership or caution
- Mindless commentary; victorless result; pointless election
- New comedy act opens in Brighton
- Operation Casement: still no arrests
- Our plan for the new Prime Minister
- Questions for Boris Johnson
- Quid pro quo: repeal Section 13
- Rory Roars off into the sunset
- Rudd, Amber: Green light for Boris
- Sarah Wollaston joins Plaid Cymru
- Supporters come out, but no Kingmaker
- Supreme Tangle
- Ten new Constituencies now under offer
- The Leadership election falls asleep again
- The quiet leadership contest
- The whirligig of time brings in his revenges
- Top people are people too
- What happens next for Boris?
- Where it all went wrong for – Change UK
- Winner is coming
Law reform
- Action: a Powers and Bodies Bill
- Challenging the challenges
- Housing: courting injustice – 1
- Murmuring the (supreme) judges – 3
- Murmuring the Judges – 1
- Murmuring the judges – 2
- The rule of lawyers
- What is judicial review
Outside the Bubble
- 4IR: understanding and fear
- Berlin – 30 years
- Bishops to mend a broken Britain?
- Dark times and better times
- Eschatological Rebellion
- Man to Man is an arrant Wolfe
- Ordinary extraordinary men
- Putin it like that, no
Parliament
- Accidental spies; useful idiots
- Aggressive timidity exploited
- Brecon and Radical Rethink
- Build the bridge, now
- Burke on Ambitious Parliaments
- Cromwell and the parliaments
- Cromwell despairs of Parliament again
- Depart, I say; and let us have done with you
- Every man to do his duty
- Gaius Cassius and Cingonius Varro
- Have I missed something…?
- He that is to govern a whole nation must read in himself…
- Headdesk, again. What next?
- Honest, Georgian elections
- Military coup in Westminster
- Pitt triumphant
- Questions for Boris Johnson
- Quid pro quo: repeal Section 13
- Right, Bill; it’s up to you now
- Rory Roars off into the sunset
- Securing the exit endgame
- See how they run
- Selecting the select few
- Some Foolish Opinions Of Lawyers Concerning The Making Of Lawes
- Supreme Tangle
- Theresa shoots for an open own-goal
- Treason, stupidity, recklessness or hypocrisy?
- Treaties bedevil a wayward parliament, 1644
- Turbulent parliamentarians; the Cromwell approach
- Westminster in the exit endgame
- What happens next for Boris?
Philosophy
- Are we European though, or Anglospherical?
- Betsy Ross and the losses of Victory
- Bishops to mend a broken Britain?
- Caliban the wild man
- Counter-cheque Quarrelsome
- Dark times and better times
- Eschatological Rebellion
- Gaius Cassius and Cingonius Varro
- He that is to govern a whole nation must read in himself…
- Liberals, conservatives and the Jordan Peterson thesis
- Man to Man is an arrant Wolfe
- Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations
- Of the Natural Condition of Mankind …2
- Of the Natural Condition of Mankind …3 – nasty, brutish, and short
- Of the Natural Condition of Mankind as Concerning their Felicity and Misery
- On popular grievances
- Puritans and the Pilgrim
- Putin it like that, no
- Quarrel of a dying empire poisoning modernity
- Some Foolish Opinions Of Lawyers Concerning The Making Of Lawes
- The Curses of Caesarea
- The doctor and the silent usurpers
- The Leviathan
- The Noble Savage, Caliban, and Hobbes
- Warre Of Every One Against Every One
Reason and science
- 4IR: understanding and fear
- Eschatological Rebellion
- Fifty years on, and the frontier is open
- Liberals, conservatives and the Jordan Peterson thesis
- Quarrel of a dying empire poisoning modernity
- Tempestuous climate on QT
Reviews
- 4IR: understanding and fear
- Magical Scottish town appears briefly from the mist
- Puritans and the Pilgrim
- Rules for conservatives?
- Summer of Rockets – a personal review