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.
Masked unmasked
I think some people must like wearing a mask, maybe even getting a perverse thrill from it. There was a time, when it was all novel, that a ...
Song of the Exile
The painful loneliness of the exile, the wanderer, the rootless man, are staples of literature across the ages. It is the subject of perhaps the ...
Matt Hancock book exclusive
Matt Hancock’s How I Won the COVID War, out soon: a thrilling read. Page after page of revelations: ‘If I were to get on top of this ...
Worth and Dignity
The Value, or WORTH of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power: and ...
Deadly, green distraction
It is not right – the thrust of the green movement displayed around COP26 is deadly in many ways. It has become a pagan cult, we have long ...
Paterson and Liberty
What can you say when all sides call upon principles which are unprincipled and decry dishonesty dishonestly? It looks terrible. Something is, ...
Celebrate COP26
To celebrate the opening of COP26 we’re holding a big village bonfire: every family bring a sack of coal and we’ll build it high and ...
No-escape Budget
Let the commentators maul it first, then settle down and see what can be rescued. Even so – tax; more tax. What we need for the economy to ...