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Autumn: A Dirge

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poet Percy Shelley calls on November’s sister months to watch by the graveside of the dead Year.

Posted October 12 2017

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The Din of Diplomacy

By William Ewart Gladstone

William Gladstone warns voters not to leave foreign policy in the hands of interventionist politicians.

Posted September 20 2017

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An Exceptional Nation

By William Ewart Gladstone

William Gladstone explains that a truly ‘exceptional nation’ respects the equality and rights of all nations.

Posted September 20 2017

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A Tax on Companionship

By William Windham MP

William Windham MP was appalled at the idea of levying a tax on man’s best friend.

Posted September 5 2017

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An Incorrigible Fanatic

By William Wilberforce

William Wilberforce told Parliament that the more his opponents slandered him, the more he was sure he was winning.

Posted September 2 2017

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Judicial Iniquity

By John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill reminds us that governments and the courts must never be allowed to criminalise matters of belief or opinion.

Posted August 17 2017

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Among Old Friends ‘Alpha of the Plough’ hoped Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did not treat his old friends as he treated his favourite books.

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Dear Anne Elliot Anne Thackeray saw something in Jane Austen’s heroines that she missed in their more modern sisters.

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The Three Bears The beginning of Robert Southey’s classic fairy tale.

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Homonyms Show that each of these words might mean different things to different people.

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One Last Look Edith Nesbit brings down the curtain on ‘The Railway Children’.

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Rephrasing Cast Mr Perks’s words into good plain English.

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Direct Speech Reconstruct what the original speakers actually said.

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