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The British Constitution

Passages examining Britain’s sometimes baffling constitutional monarchy, and telling the story of its enemies, its champions, and its reformers.

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Mrs Partington and Her Mop

By Sydney Smith

The defiant Mrs Partington took on the full might of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Posted November 4 2024

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A Coy and Humorous Dame

By John Trenchard

The English ‘Cato’ cautioned that sabre-rattling sanctions and other forms of coercion are never in the country’s economic interest.

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Posted August 23 2022

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Keeping the Colonies

By John Trenchard

Peoples of another culture or region will not long tolerate a Government that uses guns and soldiers to secure their obedience.

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Posted July 28 2022

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Liberty and Prosperity

By John Trenchard

There are solid reasons why countries with lower taxes and less regulation tend to be more prosperous.

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Posted June 28 2022

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Liberty and the Magistrate

By John Trenchard

The citizen should not dutifully accept government intrusion as the price of community life.

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Posted June 25 2022

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The Wisdom of the People

By John Trenchard

In one of his ‘Cato Letters’, John Trenchard took issue with the view (popular in Westminster) that the public could not be left to make up their own minds.

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Posted June 22 2022

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Columbus Arthur Clough marvels at the vision of a man who could cross the Atlantic without knowing there was a farther shore.

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A Full Day’s Play It was one of those rare occasions when a game of cricket had not been interrupted by the weather, but would the Church be so forgiving?

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Grammar Examine these sentences, and say whether the word ‘up’ should be removed.

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Sunday in London Every Sunday, the Englishman is raised to heaven by the choir, and then taken to her bosom by Mother Earth.

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Ye Children, Hearken Unto Me David, fresh from another close encounter with Saul’s men, shares his advice for living a charmed life.

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Look Upon This Picture Hamlet cannot understand what his mother could possibly see in his uncle Claudius.

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Metaphors Rewrite these sentences, substituting each metaphor with another of similar meaning.

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Vocabulary Compose sentences to illustrate the meaning of these words.

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Outbreak John Galsworthy shared his unease at the rise of two competing forms of national speech.

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The Peacock Throne The dazzling throne of the Mughal Emperors has vanished from history, but not before Abdul Hamid Lahori had seen it.

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