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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

• The Age turns
• Let us sit upon the ground
• Elizabeth the Great
• Differences Between Command And Counsell

Action

• A Future for Freedom
• Action: a Powers and Bodies Bill
• All said, and none done
• Army of clerks
• Birthing and slaying quangos rationally
• Build Back Britain, Boris
• Closing the web
• Disaster planning – 1
• Eschatological Rebellion
• Every story needs a villain
• Fill(et)ing the Lords – 2
• Five Questions for the new ochlocracy
• Getting back to competence
• Go out amongst the land
• Hate speech: the Denning Solution
• Hobbes manifesto: taxes and publique charity
• Housing: courting injustice – 1
• How to get things done
• Is Twitter evil?
• Lashings of a wounded tiger
• Let them sing
• Man to Man is an arrant Wolfe
• Memo from the Minister
• Mend the Kingdom – roll up that map
• Mill against the bureaucracy
• Minutiae – the big failing
• Missing role models?
• Motivations of the Cancel Culture
• New world-teachers needed
• New Yeet Resolutions
• Now for LGAxit
• Oh the things we said in dark corners….
• Open letter to the BBC
• 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
• Prey to Kings and Desperate Men
• Privatise the Civil Service
• Register the establishment
• Resisting neo-feudalism
• Righting the rights
• Rules for conservatives?
• Sir Humphrey’s logic
• Some statues must fall
• Surrendering on the playing fields of Eton
• The Curses of Caesarea
• The doctor and the silent usurpers
• The Long March: conspiracy or accident?
• The new challenges for 2021
• The Shallow State
• The Wrong Side of History
• Twit twit To-where?
• We cannot win on social media
• We’re with you, Sir Salman
• Wednesbury reform will not reverse the Cherry / Miller decision
• What did You do in the Culture War?
• What happened to the hard rain?
• Where is the text, Boris?
• Whom are you serving?
• Will Drakeford demolish the castles?

The Culture War

• Closing the web
• Every story needs a villain
• Five Questions for the new ochlocracy
• Hate speech: the Denning Solution
• Is Twitter evil?
• Lashings of a wounded tiger
• Let them sing
• Man to Man is an arrant Wolfe
• Memo from the Minister
• Missing role models?
• Motivations of the Cancel Culture
• Oh the things we said in dark corners….
• Open letter to the BBC
• Prey to Kings and Desperate Men
• Resisting neo-feudalism
• Righting the rights
• Some statues must fall
• The Long March: conspiracy or accident?
• The Shallow State
• The Wrong Side of History
• Twit twit To-where?
• We’re with you, Sir Salman
• What did You do in the Culture War?
• Whom are you serving?
• Will Drakeford demolish the castles?

The Borisiad

• A Great Deal to Do
• Blood on the carpet
• Boris Bounced
• Boris Enigma
• Boris unleashed
• Boris, the chosen one
• Borisdämmerung
• Build Back Britain, Boris
• Colombeylesdeuxeglisesiste
• Conservative Conference 2019: The Speech
• Demanding sacrifices to the baalim
• Downing Street: and so it begins
• Even Corbyn opposes Corbyn
• Exclusive leaked footage of Brexit talks
• From Boris to Liz
• Go out amongst the land
• Hebdomas horribilis
• Holes in the Blue Wall
• I’d Do Anything for Boris (But I Won’t Do That)
• If it prosper
• Iphigenia’s sisters
• Is Boris Good Enough?
• Jacobean court farce
• Knockout
• Last year was so last year, lads
• Lockdown breakdown
• Measures, four Measures
• New Yeet Resolutions
• Our plan for the new Prime Minister
• Praying for Boris
• Questions for Boris Johnson
• Round 1: both challengers still standing
• Rudd, Amber: Green light for Boris
• See how they run
• Spies, lies and mince pies
• The Borisiad
• The Last Tory Government?
• The patient is dying. There is one cure
• The Russia Report: was that it then?
• The year begins – 2020
• What do we make of Boris now?
• What happened to the hard rain?
• What happens next for Boris?
• Where did it all go wrong for Boris?
• Where is the text, Boris?
• You dirty, double-crossing chatty rat

Brexit

• 4 years ago we voted
• A Great Deal to Do
• Accidental spies; useful idiots
• Act now!
• Aggressive timidity exploited
• Agree, withdraw and move to Stage 2
• Are we European though, or Anglospherical?
• As several doors open…
• Believe in the bin
• Bishops lead themselves into error
• Bishops to mend a broken Britain?
• Brexit moment 1688
• Brexit moment 1714
• Build the bridge, now
• Burke on Ambitious Parliaments
• Eire applies to be America’s 51st State
• Endgaming
• Every man to do his duty
• Exclusive leaked footage of Brexit talks
• Fay’s pop guide to Brexit
• Five years, and who would have imagined?
• Fixing the Withdrawal Agreement
• Floreat Ultonia?
• Flybe: Brexit to blame
• Got Brexit Done
• Gyimah gymnastics
• Has the hour of the SDP come at last?
• Have I missed something…?
• Have we started to win?
• Headdesk, again. What next?
• How to fix the Ulster Protocol
• How to get things done
• I don’t know what has happened but…
• If it prosper
• Ireland abused, abandoned
• It’s not about Europe
• Last year was so last year, lads
• Liberals, conservatives and the Jordan Peterson thesis
• Major EU trade deal
• Meanwhile, in Brussels
• Mindless commentary; victorless result; pointless election
• Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations
• Operation Casement: still no arrests
• Quid pro quo: repeal Section 13
• Quiet, smug anniversary
• Reviewing the EU’s proposals
• Right, Bill; it’s up to you now
• Securing the exit endgame
• Sign the Australia deal
• Start spreading the news: we’re leaving today
• Statesmanship, a lost art
• Supreme Tangle
• Tempestuous climate on QT
• The Alliance revolution, possibly
• The Casement Award: no entries yet?
• The five stages of Grieve
• The light and the fading stars
• The new challenges for 2021
• The next eleven months
• The vote and the trust issue
• The work begins: Get Brexit Done
• Theresa shoots for an open own-goal
• To Aetius thrice Consul, the groans of the Britons
• Top people are people too
• Trade talks: Summer in the City
• Treason, stupidity, recklessness or hypocrisy?
• UK-EU talks: the British proposal
• Vive L’Empereur?
• Westminster in the exit endgame
• What happens next for Boris?
• What is less known is the reply Aetius sent
• Where is the text, Boris?
• Where the Remainers were right
• You’re on your way now, Bill

Constitution

• A cabal of its enemies
• A system failing in the middle
• Absolute Soveraignty
• Adhaerence; credulity; curiosity
• Anti-Conversion laws
• Army of clerks
• Brexit moment 1714
• Constitutionally guaranteed despotism
• Counsellours
• Court of Session – Inner House prorogation full judgment published
• Court of Session prorogation case: full judgment published
• Dissolution Of Common-wealths Proceedeth From Imperfect Institution
• Dissolution Of Commonwealths: Want Of Absolute Power
• Dissolution through private judgment
• Fill(et)ing the Lords – 1
• Fill(et)ing the Lords – 2
• Generation of a Common-wealth
• Geoffrey Cox: an appreciation
• Getting back to competence
• Hobbes and the Libertarian – 1
• Hobbes and the Libertarian – 2
• How to get things done
• Inability in politicians
• Is the Housing Court dead?
• Justice And Injustice What
• Lashings of a wounded tiger
• Limit voting rights
• Memo from the Minister
• Mend the Kingdom – roll up that map
• Military coup in Westminster
• Mill against the bureaucracy
• Minutiae – the big failing
• Murmuring the (supreme) judges – 3
• Murmuring the Judges – 1
• Murmuring the judges – 2
• Ochlocrats
• Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations
• On popular grievances
• Privatise the Civil Service
• Proud man, Drest in a little brief authority
• Puritans and the Pilgrim
• Register the establishment
• Renewal to destruction
• Some Foolish Opinions Of Lawyers Concerning The Making Of Lawes
• Soveraigne Power: The Hurt Proceeds From Not Submitting Readily
• Supreme Tangle
• Teapotohedral policy
• The Abilities required in a Judge
• The abilities that are required of him that will deliberate of business of state
• The beggars: fake charities
• The Bill and the Rights
• The heart of kings is unsearchable
• The Long March: conspiracy or accident?
• The necessity of normality
• The Shallow State
• The work begins: constitutional reform
• The year begins – 2020
• Things they won’t do with the British Constitution
• To the Extinction of their Democraty
• What did You do in the Culture War?
• What happened to the hard rain?
• Wolven hearts

Fay Kinuise

• 101 Uses for a Dumped MP
• 2019 in review, with Fay Kinuise
• 2021: please tell me it’s over
• A hard rain’s a-Cummin’
• A review of 2023, in advance
• America loses its Virgin Islands
• An interview with Greta
• Boris Bounced
• Brexit to blame for COVID-19
• Celebrate COP26
• 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
• COVID-19: a nation divided
• Dordogne diary
• Eire applies to be America’s 51st State
• Exclusive leaked footage of Brexit talks
• Fay’s pop guide to Brexit
• Flybe: Brexit to blame
• Further leak of US-UK trade talks
• Getting the band back together
• I’d Do Anything for Boris (But I Won’t Do That)
• Joe Biden’s inaugural speech leaked – exclusive
• Khan attacks opposition to ‘Firstborn’ plan
• Labour: wear a mask when shopping on-line
• Leaving Verbier
• Limit voting rights
• Magical Scottish town appears briefly from the mist
• Major EU trade deal
• Matt Hancock book exclusive
• Meat Month
• Messages pour in for Joe
• MP: vital importance of my Bill
• New comedy act opens in Brighton
• New Government slogan ‘to bring clarity’
• Operation Casement: still no arrests
• Oscars round-one-up
• Pam ŷch chi yna o hyd?
• Putin: we’re coming for you
• Revealed: why Britain did not reach the Moon first
• Rory Roars off into the sunset
• Sarah Wollaston joins Plaid Cymru
• Second wave of bad rainbows threatened
• Sir Keir Kneeler: speech in full
• Sturgeon: Scotland has its own, distinct coronavirus
• Ten new Constituencies now under offer
• The Casement Award: no entries yet?
• The five stages of Grieve
• The Leadership election falls asleep again
• Titanic to appoint new Captain
• Trump in asylum
• Unsanctioned in Moscow
• Unsanctioned in Moscow – 2
• Well, Ofsted: what do you have to say for yourself?
• What is less known is the reply Aetius sent

History

• A melancholy centenary for Wales
• And hold their manhoods cheap
• Art in the word
• Blazing trails
• 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
• Empire, interrupted
• Empty Bottles of Gentilisme
• Every man to do his duty
• Fall of the House of Cromwell
• Fill(et)ing the Lords – 1
• Forgetting Tank Man
• Governing locally and its frustrations
• Honest, Georgian elections
• How easy to lose the peace
• How the war began
• Ireland: spark and anvil of the war
• Jacobean court farce
• Let us make a reparation to Africa
• Liberation; revival
• Military coup in Westminster
• Mill, Calvin and Hobbes
• Never again.
• Of The Beginnings And Progresse Of Philosophy
• Pitt triumphant
• Puritans and the Pilgrim
• The Case of China
• The Eighteenth of June
• The oldest story in the World
• The Prisoner King
• The shadow of John Wilkes
• The Wrong Side of History
• Titus Oates
• To Aetius thrice Consul, the groans of the Britons
• To the Extinction of their Democraty
• Treaties bedevil a wayward parliament, 1644
• Turbulent parliamentarians; the Cromwell approach
• Turmoil in their sovereignty
• VE-Day: rejoicing 75 years of victory and freedom
• What is less known is the reply Aetius sent

Inside the Bubble

• 101 Uses for a Dumped MP
• A cabal of its enemies
• A Great Deal to Do
• A hard rain’s a-Cummin’
• A new programme, and how to mend it
• A revolutionary in the Ministry
• Agree, withdraw and move to Stage 2
• All said, and none done
• And then there were seven
• Anti-Conversion laws
• Artifice of intelligence
• Believe in the bin
• Bizarre self-defenestrations
• Blood on the carpet
• Boris Bounced
• Boris Enigma
• Boris unleashed
• Boris, the chosen one
• Borisdämmerung
• Brecon and Radical Rethink
• Build Back Britain, Boris
• Chuka who chucked ChUK chuckles and swallows the bird
• Closing the web – 2
• Colombeylesdeuxeglisesiste
• Competitive panicking
• 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
• Dane-geld
• Demanding sacrifices to the baalim
• Differences Of Fit And Unfit Counsellours – 1
• Differences Of Fit And Unfit Counsellours – 2
• Disaster planning – 1
• Downing Street: and so it begins
• Easing money
• Enter Ross
• Even Corbyn opposes Corbyn
• Exclusive leaked footage of Brexit talks
• Five try to squeeze through one door
• From Boris to Liz
• From the Conservative Conference 2019
• Geoffrey Cox: an appreciation
• Getting the band back together
• Go out amongst the land
• Green light, red faces, and Amber
• Gyimah gymnastics
• Has the hour of the SDP come at last?
• Have I missed something…?
• Hebdomas horribilis
• Holes in the Blue Wall
• How would I answer last night’s leadership questions?
• I don’t know what has happened but…
• I’d Do Anything for Boris (But I Won’t Do That)
• If it prosper
• Illogical crisis
• Inability in politicians
• Iphigenia’s sisters
• Is Boris Good Enough?
• It’s a funny old game, politics
• It’s not about Europe
• Jacobean court farce
• Jeremy, hunted by his own quick hounds
• Jump off the bandwagon
• Knockout
• Lashings of a wounded tiger
• Last year was so last year, lads
• Leadership or caution
• Lockdown breakdown
• Losing believers
• Matt Hancock book exclusive
• Measures, four Measures
• Mindless commentary; victorless result; pointless election
• Moderation, in moderation
• MP: vital importance of my Bill
• New comedy act opens in Brighton
• New party leader! And?
• New Yeet Resolutions
• No-escape Budget
• No, and neither did she
• Ochlocrats
• Oh the things we said in dark corners….
• Operation Casement: still no arrests
• Our plan for the new Prime Minister
• Paterson and Liberty
• Praying for Boris
• Put not your trust in princes
• Questions for Boris Johnson
• Quid pro quo: repeal Section 13
• Reading between the worry lines
• Rishi Sunak’s budget speech
• Rory Roars off into the sunset
• Round 1: both challengers still standing
• Rudd, Amber: Green light for Boris
• Sarah Wollaston joins Plaid Cymru
• See how they run
• Sir Humphrey’s logic
• Sir Keir Kneeler: speech in full
• Spies, lies and mince pies
• Supporters come out, but no Kingmaker
• Supreme Tangle
• Ten new Constituencies now under offer
• The Borisiad
• The Casement Award: no entries yet?
• The contenders of 2022
• The five stages of Grieve
• The grossest abuses of power
• The Last Tory Government?
• The Leadership election falls asleep again
• The maddening of a paper MP
• The Moderate Candidate
• The necessity of normality
• The new challenges for 2021
• The next eleven months
• The patient is dying. There is one cure
• The quiet leadership contest
• The Russia Report: was that it then?
• The shadow of John Wilkes
• The silence; the shock
• The Truss issue
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar Budget
• The whirligig of time brings in his revenges
• The Wild One
• The work begins: Get Brexit Done
• The year begins – 2020
• Titanic to appoint new Captain
• Titus Oates
• Top people are people too
• Twisted narrative
• Waiting for the Barbarians
• What do we make of Boris now?
• What happened to the hard rain?
• What happened; what happens
• What happens next for Boris?
• Where did it all go wrong for Boris?
• Where is the text, Boris?
• Where it all went wrong for – Change UK
• Who are hypocrites?
• Winner is coming
• You dirty, double-crossing chatty rat

Law reform

• A new programme, and how to mend it
• A start to fixing judicial review
• Action: a Powers and Bodies Bill
• Birthing and slaying quangos rationally
• Challenging the challenges
• Closing the web
• Closing the web – 2
• Housing: courting injustice – 1
• Is the Housing Court dead?
• Judicial review: the Manifesto
• Judicious review
• Law: an abused word
• Levelling, locality, labyrinth
• Murmuring the (supreme) judges – 3
• Murmuring the Judges – 1
• Murmuring the judges – 2
• Nicola’s Muzzle – 2
• Not where to lay his head
• Righting the rights
• The Abilities required in a Judge
• The Bill and the Rights
• The Constitution, mice and “yes but”
• The Constitution: mice undermine the wall
• The problem of peace
• The rule of lawyers
• The UK Internal Market consultation
• The work begins: constitutional reform
• Unreasonable Judicial Review
• Wednesbury reform will not reverse the Cherry / Miller decision
• What is judicial review

Matters abroad

• A stronger President than we realise
• America loses its Virgin Islands
• As Rome gave way to Byzantium…
• Berlin
• Betsy Ross and the losses of Victory
• Blaming China
• China: a world apart
• Constitutionally guaranteed despotism
• Deathly rights
• Despoticall Dominion, How Attained
• Divided by a common politics
• Dordogne diary
• Eire applies to be America’s 51st State
• Empire, interrupted
• Ethiopia, burning paradise
• Forgetting Tank Man
• Fragile China
• From Diffidence Warre
• From disaster we must build
• Gorged Washington
• Hobbes and the Libertarian – 2
• I will remember the Armenians
• In America now
• It is still not our war
• Joe Biden’s inaugural speech leaked – exclusive
• Liberty for Puerto Rico
• May there be abundant peace
• Messages pour in for Joe
• New world-teachers needed
• Oh, Vienna!
• One may smile, and smile, and be a villain
• Oscars round-one-up
• Prey to Kings and Desperate Men
• Putin it like that, no
• Putin: we’re coming for you
• Scruton’s Anglosphere
• South Sudan praying for peace
• Statesmanship, a lost art
• Texas weeping for her children
• The Case of China
• The Fourth Afghan War
• The Russia Report: was that it then?
• The Russian Enigma
• To the Extinction of their Democraty
• Trump in asylum
• UnClausewitzian wars
• Unsanctioned in Moscow
• Unsanctioned in Moscow – 2
• What has happened to Canada?
• What of Lagos?
• Who are the Iranians?
• Человек и час

America

• A stronger President than we realise
• America loses its Virgin Islands
• As Rome gave way to Byzantium…
• Betsy Ross and the losses of Victory
• Constitutionally guaranteed despotism
• Deathly rights
• Divided by a common politics
• Eire applies to be America’s 51st State
• Gorged Washington
• Hobbes and the Libertarian – 2
• In America now
• Joe Biden’s inaugural speech leaked – exclusive
• Liberty for Puerto Rico
• Messages pour in for Joe
• Oscars round-one-up
• Texas weeping for her children
• To the Extinction of their Democraty
• Trump in asylum

China

• Blaming China
• China: a world apart
• Empire, interrupted
• Forgetting Tank Man
• Fragile China
• The Case of China

Russia

• Empire, interrupted
• From Diffidence Warre
• It is still not our war
• Putin it like that, no
• Putin: we’re coming for you
• The Russia Report: was that it then?
• The Russian Enigma
• Unsanctioned in Moscow
• Unsanctioned in Moscow – 2
• Человек и час

Outside the Bubble

• 4IR: understanding and fear
• A behemoth rises twittering
• And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king
• As Rome gave way to Byzantium…
• Beauty was reclaimed
• Berlin – 30 years
• Bishops to mend a broken Britain?
• Bydded i’r Hen Iaith Barhau
• Character imbues the endeavour
• Community returning
• Competitive panicking
• Dark times and better times
• Don’t make us resent this
• Eschatological Rebellion
• Every story needs a villain
• Family, faith, flag, freedom
• Good night, sweet prince
• Gorchfygu’r Wyddfa
• Hobble Christmas and we starve
• I’ve got a little list: do you?
• In a sentence, Her Majesty defines us
• It’s a funny old game, politics
• Jubilant still
• Liberate the DIY stores
• Local politics is back
• Long to reign over us
• Man to Man is an arrant Wolfe
• Never again.
• No rest, not today
• No, and neither did she
• Not sure I should be bored
• Not where to lay his head
• Ochlocrats
• On the Jubilee
• Open letter to the BBC
• Ordinary extraordinary men
• Out to the blue remembered hills
• Oxford Street begins to reawaken
• Pam ŷch chi yna o hyd?
• Peace at Christ-tide
• Putin it like that, no
• Quite enjoying the Cancel Culture, actually
• Resisting neo-feudalism
• Solace of a Silly Season
• Swelter
• The beggars: fake charities
• The dawn is coming after night
• The new challenges for 2021
• VE-Day: rejoicing 75 years of victory and freedom
• Waiting for the Barbarians
• We are better than this
• We cannot win on social media
• What did You do in the Culture War?
• Who are the Iranians?
• Who will speak for the merchants?
• Wishing all a busy Christmas
• You’ll never take me a-skive, copper

Parliament

• 101 Uses for a Dumped MP
• A new programme, and how to mend it
• Accidental spies; useful idiots
• Act now!
• Aggressive timidity exploited
• Bizarre self-defenestrations
• Boris unleashed
• Brecon and Radical Rethink
• Build the bridge, now
• Burke on Ambitious Parliaments
• Bydded i’r Hen Iaith Barhau
• Cromwell and the parliaments
• Cromwell despairs of Parliament again
• Depart, I say; and let us have done with you
• Election done – now what?
• Even Corbyn opposes Corbyn
• Every man to do his duty
• Exhortation And Dehortation What
• Fallen riders – Auntie’s list
• Further leak of US-UK trade talks
• Gaius Cassius and Cingonius Varro
• Governing locally and its frustrations
• Hammering long, long streets
• Hatred, Lust, Ambition, Covetousnesse, Causes Of Crime
• Have I missed something…?
• Have we started to win?
• He that is to govern a whole nation must read in himself…
• Headdesk, again. What next?
• Hobbes manifesto: taxes and publique charity
• Holes in the Blue Wall
• Honest, Georgian elections
• Illogical crisis
• Judicial review: the Manifesto
• Judicious review
• Knockout
• Law: an abused word
• Letterboxes, endless letterboxes
• Levelling, locality, labyrinth
• Limit voting rights
• Military coup in Westminster
• Minutiae – the big failing
• Moderation, in moderation
• Nicola’s Muzzle – 2
• Not a sch-lur but a telling sch-lip
• Not sure I should be bored
• Now for LGAxit
• One out of three is bad
• Paterson and Liberty
• Pitt triumphant
• Politics makes screaming madness
• Questions for Boris Johnson
• Quid pro quo: repeal Section 13
• Right, Bill; it’s up to you now
• Rishi Sunak’s budget speech
• Rory Roars off into the sunset
• Round 1: both challengers still standing
• Securing the exit endgame
• See how they run
• Selecting the select few
• Sign the Australia deal
• Some Foolish Opinions Of Lawyers Concerning The Making Of Lawes
• Supreme Tangle
• Tax shot through the foot
• The abilities that are required of him that will deliberate of business of state
• The Bill and the Rights
• The fine art of pop-up journalism
• The five stages of Grieve
• The Last Tory Government?
• The maddening of a paper MP
• The patient is dying. There is one cure
• The Russia Report: was that it then?
• The UK Internal Market consultation
• The work begins: constitutional reform
• The work begins: Get Brexit Done
• The year begins – 2020
• Theresa shoots for an open own-goal
• Treason, stupidity, recklessness or hypocrisy?
• Treaties bedevil a wayward parliament, 1644
• Turbulent parliamentarians; the Cromwell approach
• Up the Monkey Hangers!
• Wednesbury reform will not reverse the Cherry / Miller decision
• Westminster in the exit endgame
• What happens next for Boris?
• Where the Remainers were right
• Worth and Dignity
• You’re on your way now, Bill

Philosophy

• A behemoth rises twittering
• A new muzzle from Nicola
• A time to rend, and a time to sew
• Absolute Soveraignty
• Adhaerence; credulity; curiosity
• Are we European though, or Anglospherical?
• Aristotle was wrong about moderation
• Armed on the street
• Art in the word
• Beauty was reclaimed
• Betsy Ross and the losses of Victory
• Bishops to mend a broken Britain?
• Blazing trails
• Bloodlust
• Bydded i’r Hen Iaith Barhau
• Caliban the wild man
• Character imbues the endeavour
• Closing the web
• Closing the web – 2
• Counsellours
• Counter-cheque Quarrelsome
• Creature of the Full Moon
• Credulity – ignorance – curiosity
• Dark times and better times
• Deposing our heroes
• Despoticall Dominion, How Attained
• Differences Of Fit And Unfit Counsellours – 1
• Differences Of Fit And Unfit Counsellours – 2
• Dissolution Of Common-wealths Proceedeth From Imperfect Institution
• Dissolution Of Commonwealths: Want Of Absolute Power
• Dissolution through private judgment
• Eschatological Rebellion
• Exhortation And Dehortation What
• Falsity in self-justification
• Family, faith, flag, freedom
• From disaster we must build
• Gaius Cassius and Cingonius Varro
• Generation of a Common-wealth
• Good Wit, Or Fancy; Good Judgement; Discretion
• Gorchfygu’r Wyddfa
• Hate speech: the Denning Solution
• Hatred, Lust, Ambition, Covetousnesse, Causes Of Crime
• He that is to govern a whole nation must read in himself…
• Hobbes and Liberty
• Hobbes and the Libertarian – 1
• Hobbes and the Libertarian – 2
• Hobbes manifesto: taxes and publique charity
• I always side with the Morlocks
• In fear of Jahannam
• In praise of plagiarism
• Insignificant Speech as madness
• Intellectuall Vertue
• Iphigenia’s sisters
• It’s an anti-social distance, actually
• Justice And Injustice What
• Let them sing
• Let us make a reparation to Africa
• Liberals, conservatives and the Jordan Peterson thesis
• Lost to translation
• Madnesse
• Man to Man is an arrant Wolfe
• Melancholy, Madnesse and the Greeks
• Melchizedeck was King of Salem
• Mill addresses no-platforming
• Mill on truth in its fragility
• Mill, Calvin and Hobbes
• Missing role models?
• Moderation, in moderation
• Mourning – a mystery
• New world-teachers needed
• New Year: new opportunities
• Nicola’s Muzzle – 2
• Of Anger in Rhetoric
• Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations
• Of The Beginnings And Progresse Of Philosophy
• Of the Difference of Manners
• Of the Difference of Manners – 2
• 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
• Oh the things we said in dark corners….
• On popular grievances
• One may smile, and smile, and be a villain
• One small step for the Isle of Man
• Open letter to the BBC
• Our Planet Matters to Auntie
• Peace at Christ-tide
• Propitiating the gods, like the Romans
• Proud man, Drest in a little brief authority
• Puritans and the Pilgrim
• Putin it like that, no
• Quarrel of a dying empire poisoning modernity
• Rage and Melacholy Madnesse
• Reason, Error and Absurdity
• Resisting neo-feudalism
• Scruton’s Anglosphere
• Sir Roger Scruton – in memory of greatness
• Some Foolish Opinions Of Lawyers Concerning The Making Of Lawes
• Song of the Exile
• South Sudan praying for peace
• Soveraigne Power: The Hurt Proceeds From Not Submitting Readily
• Surrendering on the playing fields of Eton
• Teapotohedral policy
• The Abilities required in a Judge
• The Acorns of Philosophy
• The Babylonish Captivity of the Church, politically
• The broken fence
• The Curses of Caesarea
• The doctor and the silent usurpers
• The fearsome state of manhood
• The fine art of pop-up journalism
• The heart of kings is unsearchable
• The Leviathan
• The Liberal Delusion: a retrospective
• The Noble Savage, Caliban, and Hobbes
• The problem of peace
• The road and Damascus
• The Salisbury Review, still brilliant
• To follow knowledge like a sinking star
• To the Antiquity itself I think nothing due
• Trayne Of Thoughts Unguided
• Twit twit To-where?
• Ultima Thule at the woke frontier
• University What It Is
• Waking as from sleep
• War v Terrorism question: the simple answer
• Warre Of Every One Against Every One
• We cannot win on social media
• We’re with you, Sir Salman
• Well, Ofsted: what do you have to say for yourself?
• Whatsoever thou art, thou art but a scurvy fellow
• Where is the wise? Where is the scribe?
• Who are hypocrites?
• Wolven hearts
• Worth and Dignity

Reason and science

• 4IR: understanding and fear
• A less preachy BBC: praise be
• Adhaerence; credulity; curiosity
• All the things I meant to do
• An interview with Greta
• Are we at last to be free?
• Artifice of intelligence
• Artifice of intelligence – 2
• Back to work
• Beauty was reclaimed
• Between two fires
• Blaming China
• Blazing trails
• Brexit to blame for COVID-19
• Celebrate COP26
• Community returning
• Competitive panicking
• COVID-19: a nation divided
• Covid-22
• Credulity – ignorance – curiosity
• Deadly, green distraction
• Deeper into communal panic
• Does anyone understand the rules?
• Don’t make us resent this
• Eschatological Rebellion
• Ethiopia, mending paradise
• Famine speculators – the Adam Smith view
• Fifty years on, and the frontier is open
• Go out amongst the land
• Half a cheer for vaccine passports
• Hobble Christmas and we starve
• I have measured out my life with coffee spoons
• Insignificant Speech as madness
• It’s an anti-social distance, actually
• Labour: wear a mask when shopping on-line
• Leaving Verbier
• Liberals, conservatives and the Jordan Peterson thesis
• Liberate the DIY stores
• Lockdown breakdown
• Lost amongst the trees
• Maddening the priests
• Madnesse
• Masked unmasked
• Melancholy, Madnesse and the Greeks
• Mr Internet’s Sunday Morning Service
• New Government slogan ‘to bring clarity’
• No, XR, I don’t believe you
• One small step for the Isle of Man
• Our Planet Matters to Auntie
• Out to the blue remembered hills
• Oxford Street begins to reawaken
• Praying for Boris
• Productive and Unproductive Labour
• Propitiating the divine NHS
• Quarrel of a dying empire poisoning modernity
• Quite enjoying the Cancel Culture, actually
• Reading between the worry lines
• Reason, Error and Absurdity
• Resisting neo-feudalism
• Scarcely a street, too few houses
• Second wave of bad rainbows threatened
• Sign the Australia deal
• Spinning doctors
• Sturgeon: Scotland has its own, distinct coronavirus
• Surrendering on the playing fields of Eton
• Tempestuous climate on QT
• The broken fence
• The Case of China
• The dawn is coming after night
• The necessity of normality
• The patient is dying. There is one cure
• The Ulster Bridge
• The Way to the Stars
• Theatre online? Why then the world’s my oyster
• Trade talks: Summer in the City
• Ultima Thule at the woke frontier
• Under marshal law
• Victory in the heights
• Waiting for the Barbarians
• Waiting for the storm
• Waking as from sleep
• We are going green
• What about those who are immune?
• What happened to immunity passports?
• Why all medical advice is wrong
• Why list astrology as a science?
• Wonder of the Peak 0: introduction
• Yearning to be unfree
• You’ll never take me a-skive, copper

Adam Smith

• Famine speculators – the Adam Smith view
• Productive and Unproductive Labour
• Sign the Australia deal
• The Case of China

Environment

• A less preachy BBC: praise be
• An interview with Greta
• Beauty was reclaimed
• Between two fires
• Celebrate COP26
• Deadly, green distraction
• Eschatological Rebellion
• Ethiopia, mending paradise
• Lost amongst the trees
• Maddening the priests
• No, XR, I don’t believe you
• Our Planet Matters to Auntie
• Tempestuous climate on QT
• The broken fence
• We are going green
• Wonder of the Peak 0: introduction

Plague

• All the things I meant to do
• Are we at last to be free?
• Back to work
• Blaming China
• Brexit to blame for COVID-19
• Community returning
• Competitive panicking
• COVID-19: a nation divided
• Covid-22
• Deeper into communal panic
• Does anyone understand the rules?
• Don’t make us resent this
• Famine speculators – the Adam Smith view
• Go out amongst the land
• Half a cheer for vaccine passports
• Hobble Christmas and we starve
• I have measured out my life with coffee spoons
• It’s an anti-social distance, actually
• Labour: wear a mask when shopping on-line
• Leaving Verbier
• Liberate the DIY stores
• Lockdown breakdown
• Masked unmasked
• Melancholy, Madnesse and the Greeks
• Mr Internet’s Sunday Morning Service
• New Government slogan ‘to bring clarity’
• Out to the blue remembered hills
• Oxford Street begins to reawaken
• Praying for Boris
• Propitiating the divine NHS
• Quite enjoying the Cancel Culture, actually
• Reading between the worry lines
• Scarcely a street, too few houses
• Second wave of bad rainbows threatened
• Spinning doctors
• Sturgeon: Scotland has its own, distinct coronavirus
• The dawn is coming after night
• The necessity of normality
• The patient is dying. There is one cure
• Theatre online? Why then the world’s my oyster
• Trade talks: Summer in the City
• Under marshal law
• Waiting for the Barbarians
• Waiting for the storm
• Waking as from sleep
• What about those who are immune?
• What happened to immunity passports?
• Why all medical advice is wrong
• Yearning to be unfree
• You’ll never take me a-skive, copper

Reviews

• 2019 in review, with Fay Kinuise
• 4IR: understanding and fear
• A less preachy BBC: praise be
• Ban ‘Jerusalem’? Yes: long overdue
• Blazing trails
• Bloomsday
• Dane-geld
• Days of the Comet
• Fantasy islands
• I always side with the Morlocks
• I have measured out my life with coffee spoons
• In praise of plagiarism
• Magical Scottish town appears briefly from the mist
• Matt Hancock book exclusive
• Missing role models?
• Oscars round-one-up
• Puritans and the Pilgrim
• Rules for conservatives?
• Scarcely a street, too few houses
• Stars that shall be bright when we are dust
• Summer of Rockets – a personal review
• Surviving the Stone Age: reviewed
• The Liberal Delusion: a retrospective
• The oldest story in the World
• The Salisbury Poisonings – a review
• The Salisbury Review, still brilliant
• The Secret History of Writing: musings
• The War of the Worlds on the BBC – a review
• Theatre online? Why then the world’s my oyster
• Waiting for the Barbarians
• Waiting for the storm
• We don’t need another hero
• Wonder of the Peak 0: introduction

Scrutony

• Beauty was reclaimed
• New world-teachers needed
• Our Planet Matters to Auntie
• Scruton’s Anglosphere
• Sir Roger Scruton – in memory of greatness
• Teapotohedral policy
• The Salisbury Review, still brilliant

Ulster

• Close the Ulster Bypass
• How to fix the Ulster Protocol
• Mend the Kingdom – roll up that map
• The Alliance revolution, possibly
• The UK Internal Market consultation
• The Ulster Bridge

Warre and Peace

• And then there was silence
• Armed on the street
• Army of clerks
• Despoticall Dominion, How Attained
• From Diffidence Warre
• Generation of a Common-wealth
• How easy to lose the peace
• How the war began
• Ireland: spark and anvil of the war
• It is still not our war
• Liberation; revival
• Never again.
• Prey to Kings and Desperate Men
• Renewal to destruction
• South Sudan praying for peace
• Stars that shall be bright when we are dust
• The case for declaring war
• The Fourth Afghan War
• The problem of peace
• The Russian Enigma
• To Aetius thrice Consul, the groans of the Britons
• Treaties bedevil a wayward parliament, 1644
• UnClausewitzian wars
• VE-Day: rejoicing 75 years of victory and freedom
• War v Terrorism question: the simple answer
• Warre Of Every One Against Every One
• We are better than this
• Человек и час

Where it all went wrong for…

• Where did it all go wrong for Boris?
• Where it all went wrong for – Change UK
• Where it all went wrong for – Theresa May

Wonders of the Peak

• Wonder of the Peak 0: introduction
• Wonders of the Peak 1: Chatsworth
• Wonders of the Peak 2: The Ebbing and Flowing Well
• Wonders of the Peak 3: Eldon Hole
• Wonders of the Peak 4: St Ann’s Well
• Wonders of the Peak 5: Poole’s Cavern
• Wonders of the Peak 6: Mam Tor
• Wonders of the Peak 7: The Devil’s Arse