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There's a brilliant Great Courses on Amazon on this period with Professor Robert Bucholz, a real Anglophile: England 1485 to 1714. I learnt loads. (View Post)

Waterloo (1970), as a film, was bloody brilliant. (View Post)

We'd be quite fucked. Our prosperity depends on free and open global trade. The reason we've done well the last century is that at first we policed it and then the Americans took over. If no-one does… (View Post)

You are Jolyon Maugham KC and I claim my £5. (View Post)

They've been vindicated. What was brushed off as misogyny at the time actually turned out to be bloody good judgement. The A-list was proto-Wokery and contained some of the worst candidates the Torie… (View Post)