You’re welcome.

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“Why” precedes “what.”

My thoughts on politics, policy, and first principles.

Some thoughts on policy and first principles I prepared for a panel at Cardus a couple of weeks ago.

More academic articles should start like this:

Literary pilgrimage cont’d

Gramsci, midwife to a race of monsters, knew.

'In Chinese there is an expression 'lianzi', which literally means 'to temper a word with fire', just as you would temper iron into steel. It describes the process of agonizing over a single word in writing.' On translating Virgil's Aeneid into Chinese: antigonejournal.com/2023/11/virgil…

Literary pilgrimage

From Frédéric Bastien, The Battle of London: Trudeau, Thatcher, and the Fight for Canada’s Constitution, on the motivation some of the 24 Conservative MPs (out of a total of 44 MPs) who voted against the Canada Act 1982.

Basic drawing and watercolour skills too - remarkable to see how educated Victorians filled their travel diaries with competent sketches and small paintings 150 years ago.

And Robert Graves was 19 and Wilfred Owen was 21 when the war started. Not exactly an unfathomable age gap (not that that is an important criterion in the first place).

Some daffs for St David’s Day, and a thread for the day from a few years ago with some top shelf Welsh content.

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus

I wrote about a play about Joe Clark that was recently staged in London.