Battle of Waterloo 200 years on: did Napoleon finally win?
There is a certain concomitance, in the week that we commemorated the 800th anniversary of King John setting his seal upon Magna Carta to secure certain rights and liberties…
King John
The Divine Right of HM Revenue and Customs
One expected a tactical Conservative prime minister leading a pragmatic Conservative Party in an expedient Liberal-Conservative coalition to propose or perform the occasional un-conservative thing. It was reasonably politic, not to say politically reasonable. So when, in May 2014,…
Magna Carta – Archbishop Stephen Langton settled more than 40 Barons
800 years ago to the day – on 15th June 1215 – when rebellion was endemic and conspiracy rife, King John was forced to sign Magna Carta at Runnymede,…