Totalitarian Speech Regimes
by John William O’SullivanA totalitarian speech regime must impose its rules through institutions that the majority of people see as alien; an organic speech regime relies on implicit consensus. Continue Reading »
Why I Love Trains
by Peter HitchensThe feeling of peace and irresponsibility that spreads through me as the train heaves itself out of the station is a special joy. Continue Reading »
Iconoclasm Returns to Oxford
by Peter HitchensAll over Britain, statues of forgotten politicians, merchants, generals, and admirals are being investigated. Continue Reading »
We Love Big Brother
by Peter HitchensMy beloved city, Oxford, is closed and silent, like a large, well-ordered cemetery. Continue Reading »
The Strain on the British Monarchy
by Peter HitchensThe 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 »
The Unreasonable Man
by Augustus HowardSpeaking 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 »
The Individualist
by Dan HitchensOn 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 »
The Test for the Tories
by Dan HitchensAll political movements have internal tensions, but the new Tory coalition seems unusually incoherent. Continue Reading »
Boris and a New Tory Democracy
by Augustus HowardWith 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 »
Boris: The New Blair
by Peter HitchensMr. Johnson has portrayed himself as the new Blair, a friendly figurehead who appears unthreatening while concealing a vast agenda of change. Continue Reading »
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