The Dukes of the North
A few weeks ago, I went down a rabbit hole of researching my local duke and his family. And I started noticing a pattern. they would regularly have to inherit in ways other than father to son. Today, I will be cataloguing the story.....of the Duchy of Northumberland.
Marching Sheepishly: How the British wool industry helped the French to win the War of the First Coalition
They wore this wool at Lodi, at Milan, at Mantua, and at Arcole. It would have been difficult to persuade these soldiers to go into battle without uniforms, and as such it is perfectly reasonable to make the claim that without British wool, France would never have won the War of the First Coalition.
6 min read
22/04/2023
Why did Britain oppose the French Revolution?
This may seem an odd question with the gift of hindsight. When the French Revolution exploded into an international crisis, no country fought harder to suppress France than Great Britain (United Kingdom from 1801). Britain would not only act as financiers against the French Revolution, funding the multiple coalition wars, but the British Empire would also play an important military role both on land and at sea. It may come across as odd, perhaps, to ask why Britain would be opposed to the French Revolution.
9 min read
15/04/2023
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The time Britain funded an invasion of itself... twice!
One of the more famous real estate sales in human history was the Louisiana Purchase. Not only was it an enormous sale, but also all sides involved got what they wanted from the deal. In 1803, Napoleon Bonaparte sold the French colonies of Louisiana to the young United States for a sum of $15 million (estimated to be roughly $309 million today). This purchase would, interestingly enough, come in large part from British financiers... and would end up funding and providing justification for two separate invasions of Britain and its territories.
7 min read
08/04/2023
One better than Alexander - The remarkable story of how Britain conquered India
Many believe that Britain’s conquest of India was a forgone conclusion. Images may arise of a technologically superior wealthy British empire taking on an India totally unprepared for European imperialism - in the same vein as the Scramble for Africa or the colonisation of the New World. Nothing could be further from the truth.
7 min read
01/04/2023
The Problem with the Public Order Bill
To give its full title, the Public Order Bill is “A Bill to make provision for new offences relating to public order; to make provision about stop and search powers; to make provision about the exercise of police functions relating to public order; to make provision about proceedings by the Secretary of State relating to protest-related activities; to make provision about serious disruption prevention orders; and for connected purposes.”
11 min read
05/02/2023
The Pros and Cons of Political Labels
A short look into the pros and cons of political labels.
4 min read
28/01/2023
A Resolution's Worth of Words
At the end of last year I made public my resolutions, not only for the coming year, but also the next half decade. I went through a little of the history and tradition around the setting of resolutions at the New Year and also outlined the 10 (or 11) things that I had determined I ought to do to improve myself and my life. One of them was to re-embrace reading.
16 min read
24/12/2022
Making the Case for Capitalism
Last week I was at a Conservative Policy Forum making the case for capitalism. I will lay out my arguments for capitalism in this article as it will allow me to expand more on my arguments that I put forward in the forum. I am unapologetic about being an activist in promoting a free-market system and I will be laying out many arguments in detail about how a free-market system is superior for a countries success.
20 min read
20/12/2022
Publish and Be Damned - The Stoics
Four months ago we started series one of Publish and Be Damned by posing the question: is stoicism only fit for those who have never done anything courageous or powerful in their lives?
4 min read
10/12/2022
Learning from Blair
What can conservatives learn from Tony Blair and his Labour Party? As opposed to what the Conservative Party learned from them.
4 min read
26/11/2022
The War to End Empires
At the centre of the village in which I grew up, like so many others, there is a 9 foot stone pillar bearing the names of the five young men of the village who were killed during the Great War. At the last census, the village population was a grand total of 161 people, although with half of the houses in the village having been built in the 1960s, this would have been an appreciable percentage of the people living there in 1914.
6 min read
10/11/2022
Now That Tavistock Is Closing, Where Are the Other Groomers?
Excellent news for those concerned about the state experimenting on children! The Tavistock Gender Clinic, the only NHS clinic specifically for ‘trans’ children is to be shut down! This is a huge win. The NHS has been ordered to close down the Tavistock clinic after a report had found that the clinic was failing to adequately care for children under 18, some as young as four.
8 min read
29/07/2022
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