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Things I have posted recently
- The Year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars. Part 2.5. The Utilitarians I: Elie Halévy and the Philosophical Radicals 1750-1867. 12/02/2023
- The Year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars. Part 2.4. The EU’s legacy: 1789-1914: Science, Nature, Necessity. 29/03/2022
- The year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars. Part 2.3: The EU’s legacy, 1492-1789: Europe enters into the Devil’s Anus. 03/02/2022
- The Year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars: Part 2.2: The EU’s Legacy from the Middle Ages. 30/06/2021
- The Year of Covid 19: Political religion and the culture wars. Part 2. 1. Europe’s legacy: the first fifteen hundred years to AD 410. 26/02/2021
- The year of Covid-19: political religion and the culture wars.Part 1. 16/12/2020
- The UK Internal Market Bill: Supranational v. International law 14/09/2020
- China in the World: Chapter 3 Sino-US relations – a stable instability. 11/07/2020
- China in the World: Chapter 2 China becomes the prime global manufacturing and trading platform. 27/06/2020
- China in the World: Chapter 1. From backwater to world power. 16/05/2020
- China, coronavirus and the politics of paranoia 25/04/2020
- Brexit and the British Constitution: Part V. Modernisation or Vandalism? 09/04/2020
- Brexit and the British Constitution: Part IV. The pre-1945 Roots of British Supranationalism. 10/01/2020
- Brexit and the British Constitution: Part III. Efficiency, Parliamentary Sovereignty, Bureaucracy. 02/12/2019
- The Supreme Court’s judgement on Prime Minister Johnson’s decision to prorogue parliament: Part IV. New law or constitutional aberration? 06/11/2019
- The Supreme Court’s judgement on Prime Minister Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament: Part III. Assessment. 06/11/2019
- The Supreme Court’s judgement on Prime Minister Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament: Part II. The Arguments for and against. 06/11/2019
- The Supreme Court judgement on Prime Minister Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament: Part I: Definitions and timeline. 06/11/2019
- Apocalypse and Guilt: Why Savonarola and Greta differ. 01/10/2019
- Brexit and the British Constitution: Part II. The Whig spirit of the Old Constitution. 21/08/2019
Category Archives: The United States
The year of Covid 19: Political Religion and the Culture Wars. Part 2.3: The EU’s legacy, 1492-1789: Europe enters into the Devil’s Anus.
This is the fourth chapter in the series on cultural wars. The first essay sets the scene in the post-1990 decades; the second takes us back to the Jewish, Greek, Roman and Christian roots of European culture; the third essay … Continue reading
Posted in American Revolution, Christianity, culture wars, English Civil War, Europe, French Revolution, International law, Machiavelli, Martin Luther, Slavery, society of states, The Enlightenment, the EU, The United States, Treaty of Westphalia, Uncategorized, United Kingdom
Tagged 1492, American Revolution, Christianity, Europe Spain France Great BritainGrotius, French Revolution, Martin Luther, Reformation, Slavery, The Emperor Charles V, The Enlightenment, The Papacy, Treaty of Treatt of Westphalia
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The year of Covid-19: political religion and the culture wars.Part 1.
The “great reset” is the title of a book, co-authored by Thierry Malleret and Klaus Schwab. The book’s subject is the pandemic of 2020. Things, the authors aver, will never return to normal. [1] The coronavirus “ marks a fundamental … Continue reading
China in the World: Chapter 3 Sino-US relations – a stable instability.
There is a paradox at the heart of Sino-US relations: as Professor Yan Xuetong has written, they are inherently unstable;[1] yet the structure in which their relations is cast is very stable indeed. They are stable in the sense that … Continue reading
Posted in Asia Pacific, Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, Pakistan, Russia, South East Asia, Taiwan, the EU, The United States
Tagged Asia, China, Globalization, India, interdependence, Japan, power politics, Russia, South East Asia, Taiwan, United States, world politics
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China in the World: Chapter 2 China becomes the prime global manufacturing and trading platform.
The forty years from 1980 to 2020 have been witness to one of the fastest power displacements in the history of the world. As the late Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s Senior Minister, noted, “The size of China’s displacement is such … Continue reading
China in the World: Chapter 1. From backwater to world power.
Time hangs heavily on Chinese civilisation. For nearly four thousand years, depending on when the first dynasty is dated, up to thirty dynasties have ruled for varying lengths of time over the Middle Kingdom. Not surprisingly, the prevalent Chinese interpretation … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, China, The United States, World politics, business and economics
Tagged Asia Pacific, China, United States, world politics
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China, coronavirus and the politics of paranoia
The over two hundred independent countries of the world face similar problems dealing with the coronavirus, but the responses from each country are unique. This is one of the fundamental lessons so far from the pandemic. As the proverb says, … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, China, Europe, The United States, World politics, business and economics
Tagged Asia, China, Coronavirus, Europe, Globalization, United States, world politics
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Brexit and the British Constitution: Part V. Modernisation or Vandalism?
This is the last in the series of articles on Brexit and the Constitution. It is based on four books which have dealt with the subject over the last twenty years: Vernon Bogdanor, Professor of Government at King’s College, London, … Continue reading
Brexit and the British Constitution: Part II. The Whig spirit of the Old Constitution.
The frontispiece is from the first “Whig” History of England-by a Frenchman. The spirit of the Old Constitution How history is recorded plays a central part in Britain’s uncodified constitution. Rules and conventions remain subject to interpretation, precedents are by … Continue reading
Brexit and the British Constitution: Part I. The roots of the Old Constitution.
Introduction. On April 7, 1960, President Charles de Gaulle addressed the combined houses of parliament in Westminster Hall.[1] He started his allocution in reference to the “immortal glory of Winston Churchill”, and continued a peon of praise to the institutions … Continue reading
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The UK’s Golden Opportunity: The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square
The May-Barnier deal is in deep trouble. After two years of negotiations, and signed up by 27 member states, it has been vetoed twice by the largest and fourth largest defeat in parliamentary history. Prime Minister May has returned to … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, France and Germany, The United States, United Kingdom
Tagged European disintegration, France, Germany, supranationalism, the EU, UK
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