Union unrest had two sides - often awful, non-consultative and non-consensual management, and often tribal, non-discriminating and wilfully obstructive workers. The common denominator was class, and … (View Post)

It's a very interesting political question. The modern identity politics of the right is, in part, a very clear and effective way of dividing up working class people. Tabloid campaigns against E… (View Post)

Powell was an accomplished classicist and speaker, and would have relished a tough fight with interviewers, but this a fairly rosy view of his personality. Alongside his polished and proud persona, h… (View Post)

A strange character, Powell, but not atypical of his time and education. He was capable of great subtlety and classical erudition, but also crude brutishness and boorishness. That combination would h… (View Post)

Yes, having spent a fair time in Greece, I've heard quite a lot of this. As you say, I I think the chapter is historically closed - the Christian Greeks returned from cities like Smyrna, and man… (View Post)