Monday, 18 May 2026

The philosophy of Karl Marx ... is really an extreme version of High Victorian liberalism

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The philosophy of Karl Marx ... is really an extreme version of High Victorian liberalism: the fact of the worldwide British Empire created ...
Saturday, 16 May 2026

The indispensable key to English history is the Jurassic divide

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For Hawes, the indispensable key to English history is the Jurassic divide - a boundary line running north-north-east from the Exe estuary t...
Friday, 15 May 2026

Yet again, this was a case of large scale hybrid warfare: and Napoleon was not particularly good at it

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Yet – as the degree to which the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars were fought out on a transcontinental scale makes clear – viewed in their...
Thursday, 14 May 2026

That was the worst of these Americans! Always getting divorced and causing unpleasantness

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She choked. His lordship, a young man with a shrinking horror of the deeper emotions, whether exhibited in woman or man, writhed silently. T...
Wednesday, 13 May 2026

Greece is part of Western civilization, for the very simple reason that over the last two hundred years Greeks have determined that it should be.

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Samuel Huntington, in his influential book The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order , published in 1996, noted the par...
Tuesday, 12 May 2026

The timing, manner and mood of a private assault on a new town are a serious matter.

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The timing, manner and mood of a private assault on a new town are a serious matter. If the town should be one of the world's wonders, i...
Monday, 11 May 2026

The Christian Church was the last great creative achievement of classical Greek culture

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The evolution of Christianity into a logical system which could weather the shocks of millennia, was a Greek thing. The Christian Church was...