In both ancient Athens and Republican Rome (where elections weren't always held, and excluded huge proportions of the population), demokratia/Res Publica was about the rule of law and the ultimate ac… (View Post)

Is all this claptrap about "class" some new fad the kiddies have invented? I grew up in a Liverpool slum, but did Greats at Oxford. I've never owned a house in my life and now live almost e… (View Post)