Keynesian Liberal

Sunday, 27 June 2021

Two dishonourable men

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 The discovery of Health Secretary Matt Hancock who  has spent the last fifteen months urging us to keep  two metres social distance from ot...
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Friday, 18 June 2021

Whoopee! Another Orpington

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 In 1962 the Liberal victory in Orpington rescued the party from near extinction (2.5% of the national vote and only 6MPs in 1951) to being ...
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Wednesday, 16 June 2021

The "Bad Chap" practice of government

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 Way back in 2018 historian Peter Hennessey described Britain's uncodified constitution  as the '"Good Chap" theory of gov...
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Thursday, 27 May 2021

Confessions of a Cummings

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  If Prime Minster Johnson's illegal prorogation of parliament in the autumn of 2019 marked the end of the "good chaps theory of go...
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Friday, 21 May 2021

The princes and the BBC

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Rightly or wrongly our royal family share with the BBC the distinction of being one of Britain's most internationally admired  instituti...
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Friday, 14 May 2021

Nice work (allegedly): if you can get it.

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 It would  be hard to further embarrass former Tory Prime Minister David Cameron after the publicity given to his grilling by parliamentary...
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Wednesday, 12 May 2021

UK Democrcy: going backwards

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 The "Whig view of history"  was  that, on the whole, by and large, in the main, and little by little,  our country gradually beca...
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