At the same time, the Whigs were also the party of religious Nonconformism, opposition to absolute monarchy, and intellectual open-mindedness. The original "Liberal Elite", and probably the… (View Post)

Yes, Charles Dilke was they key figure there. What a different country it would have been if he had become PM, as he so nearly did. A Whig aristocrat turned radical-imperalist-republican. Instead he … (View Post)

I'm sure that smelly bins and bicycles unable to be tied to bike racks is what the Queen would have wanted. And Center Parcs and Little Chefs deserted in the rain and silence. I don't reall… (View Post)

Because of first the partial surprise of the energy announcement, and then immediately after, the Queen's passing, there's been incredibly little coverage of just how much this month's… (View Post)

Amusingly, the Spectator seemed to have tried to remove Daniel Hannan's mid-2000's article on the natural connection between the pre- crash Icelandic deregulatory model and Brexit, but it&#… (View Post)