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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

Action

• A Future for Freedom
• Action: a Powers and Bodies Bill
• Army of clerks
• Eschatological Rebellion
• Hobbes manifesto: taxes and publique charity
• Housing: courting injustice – 1
• Mend the Kingdom – roll up that map
• Minutiae – the big failing
• New world-teachers needed
• 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?
• Sir Humphrey’s logic
• The Curses of Caesarea
• The doctor and the silent usurpers
• The Long March: conspiracy or accident?
• Wednesbury reform will not reverse the Cherry / Miller decision
• Where is the text, Boris?

Brexit

• 4 years ago we voted
• Accidental spies; useful idiots
• Act now!
• 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
• Fay’s pop guide to Brexit
• Fixing the Withdrawal Agreement
• Flybe: Brexit to blame
• Got Brexit Done
• 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
• 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
• Reviewing the EU’s proposals
• Right, Bill; it’s up to you now
• Securing the exit endgame
• Start spreading the news: we’re leaving today
• Supreme Tangle
• Tempestuous climate on QT
• The Alliance revolution, possibly
• The Casement Award: no entries yet?
• The five stages of Grieve
• 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
• Army of clerks
• Brexit moment 1714
• Court of Session – Inner House prorogation full judgment published
• Court of Session prorogation case: full judgment published
• Fill(et)ing the Lords – 1
• Geoffrey Cox: an appreciation
• Is the Housing Court dead?
• Mend the Kingdom – roll up that map
• Military coup in Westminster
• 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
• Proud man, Drest in a little brief authority
• Puritans and the Pilgrim
• Register the establishment
• Some Foolish Opinions Of Lawyers Concerning The Making Of Lawes
• Supreme Tangle
• The Abilities required in a Judge
• The beggars: fake charities
• The Long March: conspiracy or accident?
• The necessity of normality
• The work begins: constitutional reform
• The year begins – 2020
• Things they won’t do with the British Constitution

Fay Kinuise

• 101 Uses for a Dumped MP
• 2019 in review, with Fay Kinuise
• A hard rain’s a-Cummin’
• Brexit to blame for COVID-19
• 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
• Exclusive leaked footage of Brexit talks
• Fay’s pop guide to Brexit
• Flybe: Brexit to blame
• Further leak of US-UK trade talks
• Labour: wear a mask when shopping on-line
• Magical Scottish town appears briefly from the mist
• Meat Month
• New comedy act opens in Brighton
• New Government slogan ‘to bring clarity’
• 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
• 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
• What is less known is the reply Aetius sent

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
• Empire, interrupted
• Every man to do his duty
• Fill(et)ing the Lords – 1
• Honest, Georgian elections
• How easy to lose the peace
• Let us make a reparation to Africa
• Military coup in Westminster
• Mill, Calvin and Hobbes
• Never again.
• Pitt triumphant
• Puritans and the Pilgrim
• The Case of China
• The Eighteenth of June
• The oldest story in the World
• Titus Oates
• To Aetius thrice Consul, the groans of the Britons
• Treaties bedevil a wayward parliament, 1644
• Turbulent parliamentarians; the Cromwell approach
• 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 hard rain’s a-Cummin’
• Agree, withdraw and move to Stage 2
• And then there were seven
• Believe in the bin
• Bizarre self-defenestrations
• Blood on the carpet
• Boris, the chosen one
• Brecon and Radical Rethink
• Chuka who chucked ChUK chuckles and swallows the bird
• 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
• Downing Street: and so it begins
• Enter Ross
• Exclusive leaked footage of Brexit talks
• Five try to squeeze through one door
• From the Conservative Conference 2019
• Geoffrey Cox: an appreciation
• 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
• Iphigenia’s sisters
• 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
• Ochlocrats
• Oh the things we said in dark corners….
• Operation Casement: still no arrests
• Our plan for the new Prime Minister
• Praying for Boris
• 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
• Sir Humphrey’s logic
• Supporters come out, but no Kingmaker
• Supreme Tangle
• Ten new Constituencies now under offer
• The Casement Award: no entries yet?
• The five stages of Grieve
• The grossest abuses of power
• The Leadership election falls asleep again
• The necessity of normality
• The next eleven months
• The quiet leadership contest
• The Russia Report: was that it then?
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar Budget
• The whirligig of time brings in his revenges
• The work begins: Get Brexit Done
• The year begins – 2020
• Titanic to appoint new Captain
• Titus Oates
• 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
• Is the Housing Court dead?
• Judicial review: the Manifesto
• Murmuring the (supreme) judges – 3
• Murmuring the Judges – 1
• Murmuring the judges – 2
• The Abilities required in a Judge
• The Constitution, mice and “yes but”
• The Constitution: mice undermine the wall
• The rule of lawyers
• The UK Internal Market consultation
• The work begins: constitutional reform
• Wednesbury reform will not reverse the Cherry / Miller decision
• What is judicial review

Matters abroad

• Betsy Ross and the losses of Victory
• Blaming China
• China: a world apart
• Empire, interrupted
• New world-teachers needed
• Putin it like that, no
• Scruton’s Anglosphere
• South Sudan praying for peace
• The Case of China
• The Russia Report: was that it then?
• Who are the Iranians?

America

• Betsy Ross and the losses of Victory

China

• Blaming China
• China: a world apart
• Empire, interrupted
• The Case of China

Russia

• Empire, interrupted
• Putin it like that, no
• The Russia Report: was that it then?

Outside the Bubble

• 4IR: understanding and fear
• Berlin – 30 years
• Bishops to mend a broken Britain?
• Bydded i’r Hen Iaith Barhau
• Competitive panicking
• Dark times and better times
• Don’t make us resent this
• Eschatological Rebellion
• Family, faith, flag, freedom
• In a sentence, Her Majesty defines us
• Liberate the DIY stores
• Man to Man is an arrant Wolfe
• Never again.
• Not sure I should be bored
• Ochlocrats
• Ordinary extraordinary men
• Out to the blue remembered hills
• Oxford Street begins to reawaken
• Peace at Christ-tide
• Putin it like that, no
• Quite enjoying the Cancel Culture, actually
• The beggars: fake charities
• The dawn is coming after night
• VE-Day: rejoicing 75 years of victory and freedom
• We are better than this
• Who are the Iranians?
• You’ll never take me a-skive, copper

Parliament

• 101 Uses for a Dumped MP
• 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
• Even Corbyn opposes Corbyn
• Every man to do his duty
• Fallen riders – Auntie’s list
• Further leak of US-UK trade talks
• 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?
• Hobbes manifesto: taxes and publique charity
• Honest, Georgian elections
• Judicial review: the Manifesto
• Knockout
• Letterboxes, endless letterboxes
• Military coup in Westminster
• Minutiae – the big failing
• Not a sch-lur but a telling sch-lip
• Not sure I should be bored
• Pitt triumphant
• Politics makes screaming madness
• Questions for Boris Johnson
• Quid pro quo: repeal Section 13
• Right, Bill; it’s up to you now
• Rory Roars off into the sunset
• Round 1: both challengers still standing
• Securing the exit endgame
• See how they run
• Selecting the select few
• Some Foolish Opinions Of Lawyers Concerning The Making Of Lawes
• Supreme Tangle
• The fine art of pop-up journalism
• The five stages of Grieve
• The Last Tory Government?
• 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
• Wednesbury reform will not reverse the Cherry / Miller decision
• Westminster in the exit endgame
• What happens next for Boris?
• Where the Remainers were right
• You’re on your way now, Bill

Philosophy

• Are we European though, or Anglospherical?
• Armed on the street
• Betsy Ross and the losses of Victory
• Bishops to mend a broken Britain?
• Bydded i’r Hen Iaith Barhau
• Caliban the wild man
• Counter-cheque Quarrelsome
• Dark times and better times
• Eschatological Rebellion
• Family, faith, flag, freedom
• Gaius Cassius and Cingonius Varro
• He that is to govern a whole nation must read in himself…
• Hobbes manifesto: taxes and publique charity
• In fear of Jahannam
• Iphigenia’s sisters
• Let us make a reparation to Africa
• Liberals, conservatives and the Jordan Peterson thesis
• Man to Man is an arrant Wolfe
• Mill addresses no-platforming
• Mill on truth in its fragility
• Mill, Calvin and Hobbes
• New world-teachers needed
• New Year: new opportunities
• Of Crimes, Excuses, and Extenuations
• 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 small step for the Isle of Man
• 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
• Reason, Error and Absurdity
• Scruton’s Anglosphere
• Sir Roger Scruton – in memory of greatness
• Some Foolish Opinions Of Lawyers Concerning The Making Of Lawes
• South Sudan praying for peace
• The Abilities required in a Judge
• 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 Leviathan
• The Noble Savage, Caliban, and Hobbes
• The road and Damascus
• The Salisbury Review, still brilliant
• To the Antiquity itself I think nothing due
• Ultima Thule at the woke frontier
• University What It Is
• Waking as from sleep
• Warre Of Every One Against Every One

Reason and science

• 4IR: understanding and fear
• A less preachy BBC: praise be
• All the things I meant to do
• Between two fires
• Blaming China
• Brexit to blame for COVID-19
• Competitive panicking
• COVID-19: a nation divided
• 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
• I have measured out my life with coffee spoons
• Labour: wear a mask when shopping on-line
• Liberals, conservatives and the Jordan Peterson thesis
• Liberate the DIY stores
• Lost amongst the trees
• Mr Internet’s Sunday Morning Service
• New Government slogan ‘to bring clarity’
• 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
• Quarrel of a dying empire poisoning modernity
• Quite enjoying the Cancel Culture, actually
• Reason, Error and Absurdity
• Scarcely a street, too few houses
• Sturgeon: Scotland has its own, distinct coronavirus
• Tempestuous climate on QT
• The broken fence
• The Case of China
• The dawn is coming after night
• The necessity of normality
• 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
• 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
• You’ll never take me a-skive, copper

Adam Smith

• Famine speculators – the Adam Smith view
• The Case of China

Environment

• A less preachy BBC: praise be
• Between two fires
• Eschatological Rebellion
• Ethiopia, mending paradise
• Lost amongst the trees
• Our Planet Matters to Auntie
• Tempestuous climate on QT
• The broken fence
• We are going green

Plague

• All the things I meant to do
• Blaming China
• Brexit to blame for COVID-19
• Competitive panicking
• COVID-19: a nation divided
• Does anyone understand the rules?
• Don’t make us resent this
• Famine speculators – the Adam Smith view
• I have measured out my life with coffee spoons
• Labour: wear a mask when shopping on-line
• Liberate the DIY stores
• 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
• Quite enjoying the Cancel Culture, actually
• Scarcely a street, too few houses
• Sturgeon: Scotland has its own, distinct coronavirus
• The dawn is coming after night
• The necessity of normality
• Theatre online? Why then the world’s my oyster
• Trade talks: Summer in the City
• 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
• 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
• Dane-geld
• I have measured out my life with coffee spoons
• Magical Scottish town appears briefly from the mist
• Puritans and the Pilgrim
• Rules for conservatives?
• Scarcely a street, too few houses
• Summer of Rockets – a personal review
• The oldest story in the World
• The Salisbury Poisonings – a review
• The Salisbury Review, still brilliant
• The War of the Worlds on the BBC – a review
• Theatre online? Why then the world’s my oyster
• Waiting for the storm

Scrutony

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

Ulster

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

Warre and Peace

• Armed on the street
• Army of clerks
• How easy to lose the peace
• Never again.
• South Sudan praying for peace
• To Aetius thrice Consul, the groans of the Britons
• Treaties bedevil a wayward parliament, 1644
• VE-Day: rejoicing 75 years of victory and freedom
• Warre Of Every One Against Every One
• We are better than this

Where it all went wrong for…

• Where it all went wrong for – Change UK
• Where it all went wrong for – Theresa May