The piece in the Telegraph today, suggesting that left wing people move right as a pack as they age, without realising it, so they are less left wing than they think, is interesting so far as it goes. But there’s a lot of confusion about right and left, as terms, and this piece might just [...]
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Right and left
Compare and contrast
This news story from today:
Prof Mike Kelly, the public health director at Nice, added: “This isn’t about telling individuals to choose salad instead of chips — it’s about making sure that the chips we all enjoy occasionally are as healthy as possible.
“That means making further reductions [...]
Slaves of the working class
Remember the Battle of Lechfeld? In 955, on the plain of the river Lech, the German army defeated a Magyar horde and ended one of the three barbarian invasions of Western Europe.
At least, that was always the conventional, “official” history. As Carl von Rotteck put it in his General History of the World: From [...]