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11 min read

12/05/2023

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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01/06/2022

Written by Jonathan

The Leftist Crusade Against the Ghost Of The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

The Trans-Atlantic Slave trade was bad, I know this is a popular opinion that almost everyone in the United Kingdom agrees with and has agreed with since the 19th century. It is an issue we solved nearly two centuries ago and have spent most of those two centuries paying off the debt incurred to end it. Not only did Britain stop their own participation in the trade themselves, they made it completely impossible for every other Trans-Atlantic empire to take part in it. There’s good reason to mention this, since there is a relentless demoralisation of Britain's history and empire because Britain was involved in the industrialised trade of human lives. We see it in the Guardian where they wrote about toppling Nelson’s Column. We see it when the National trust conducts politically motivated assessments into their statues and estates to see just how linked to the Slave Trade our historical figures were and either remove them or install information to call them evil.

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25/05/2022

Written by Harry

The Trad Tax

I call on any conservative government worthy of the name to reflect upon the way in which it currently favours total employment, at any cost, over and above the traditional family unit. I ask that if they are not willing to actively incentivise these traditional family units, then they at least remove some of the disincentives which currently exist as a result of our ‘progressive’ system.

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16 min read

11/05/2022

Written by John

What is Paleolibertarianism?

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27/04/2022

Written by Callum

The Present and Future of Energy in the United Kingdom

As I’m sure everyone in the UK has seen at this point, there has been a spike in not only our energy bills but the cost of filling our cars up! There are many reasons for the prices of energy to rise which I will touch on, since to understand where the future lies we need to understand the present.

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22 min read

13/04/2022

Written by Harry

Influence, Institution and Incrementalism

Originally written by John for publication by the Mallard in their January 2022 Issue

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06/04/2022

Written by John

The English Language, Antecedence and Adaptation

The English language is a complex beast, full of rules and anomalies. It is something which has evolved over the space of more than a millenia and a half and over that time it has incorporated Latin, French and Old Norse (among other influences). It has grown and developed almost like an organism, with it's usage being adapted by the user over generations with elements being changed, added, or disposed of to suit regional tastes and catastrophic events.