The monarch, stripped of all ancient direct power, is now remarkably like the king on a chessboard—almost incapable of offensive action, but preventing others from occupying a crucial square. Continue Reading »
Speaking to his friend Frederick Lindemann in the 1920s, Winston Churchill remarked, “Far too much has been and is being written about me.” Among Churchill’s many chroniclers, even at that early date, was Churchill himself: a true history-writing history-maker, who wrote not only to make money . . . . Continue Reading »
On February 2, 2018, seven members of a group called Bristol Antifascists assembled outside a lecture hall at the University of the West of England in Bristol. They donned balaclavas or dark glasses, according to taste, and entered through the double doors at the back of the hall. “No platform for . . . . Continue Reading »
All political movements have internal tensions, but the new Tory coalition seems unusually incoherent. Continue Reading »
With a full, eighty-seat majority in the House of Commons, Johnson’s Conservatives now have the opportunity to change British politics for a generation or more. Continue Reading »
Mr. Johnson has portrayed himself as the new Blair, a friendly figurehead who appears unthreatening while concealing a vast agenda of change. Continue Reading »
Vast numbers of previously left-wing Labour supporters switched to support Boris Johnson and elect for the fourth consecutive time a Conservative prime minister. Continue Reading »
The United Kingdom has now begun the process of breaking up. Continue Reading »
Britain’s courts are becoming, as America’s already are, unelected tools of politics, losing proportionate credibility as impartial arbiters of justice. Continue Reading »
Abortion and gay marriage have entered Northern Ireland by the back door. Continue Reading »
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