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A rowdy but good-humoured crowd gathered in St Peter’s Fields, Manchester, to protest against electoral malpractice and Government cronyism.
Picture: By Richard Carlile (1790–1843), Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.. Source.
Posted February 9 2021
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Politicians who demand that everyone in the country unite behind their vision of society are standing in the way of real progress.
Picture: By Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), via the Wellcome Collection and Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.. Source.
Posted February 2 2021
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Chinese merchant Lien Chi tells a colleague that English liberties have little to do with elections, taxes and regulations.
Picture: Pierre Prévost (1764–1823), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.. Source.
Posted August 13 2020
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If officials in the Raj ever forgot who their boss was, they would bring the whole government down about their ears.
Picture: © Maxwell Hamilton, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic.. Source.
Posted August 4 2020
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As William Lecky watched the rapid spread of socialism across the European Continent, he was struck by a powerful sense of déjà vu.
Picture: By Robert Nanteuil (1623–1678), from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Gallica Digital Library and Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.. Source.
Posted July 31 2020
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Events in Italy and Austria seemed to be bringing the day ever closer when a European democracy would vote herself into oblivion.
Picture: By Franz Wenzel Schwarz (1842–1919), from the Civic Museum of Castel Nuovo, Naples, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.. Source.
Posted July 31 2020