Political

A lively, privileged group of young intellectuals grew ever more alarmed by the crises that struck Britain in the mid-1740s.

The uneasy balance between rulers and counsellors has been a feature of British politics for centuries.

Supported by both slaveholders and abolitionists for different reasons, the founding of Liberia is a history of the near impossible. Perhaps its greatest feat was survival. 

To whom should one pledge fealty? Lord, king, brother or nation?

It was not the Nazi-Soviet Pact, but the ‘Party line’, which brought an end to the era of ‘fellow travellers’, 80 years ago.

Over the last 30 years, the UK’s political class has swapped ideology for values and sleepwalked into major constitutional and political change. What can it learn from the last time it faced a crisis of such magnitude?

The little-known republic was a short-lived experiment in constitutional democracy.

A remarkable political career suggests that social mobility is of benefit to us all.