A Letter to Mr. Donald J. Trump | Lawson Akhigbe Being the views of Sir Thomas More, Knight, Lord Chancellor of England,on the matter of Unjust Wars, Territorial Ambition, and the Moral Poverty of Conquest ⸻ ✦ ⸻ From: Sir Thomas More, Knight, Lord Chancellor of England (retired, involuntarily).Tower of London, Anno Domini 1534. Forwarded …
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List three books that have had an impact on you. Why? A brilliant, heavy-hitting trio of books. They stretch across different eras, regions, and genres, they all powerfully map out exactly the complete, complex humanity of Africans, and the systemic forces, both historical and ongoing, that have tried to diminish it. Each of these texts …
Margaret Thatcher There is a particular genus of political problem that thrives not on its insolubility but on the extraordinary usefulness of its apparent insolubility. The British housing crisis is the finest specimen of this genus in modern democratic history. It has survived Thatcher, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss (briefly, like a mayfly with …
There is a particular species of political genius that consists in creating a problem, blaming the victims of that problem, and then campaigning for re-election on the promise of solving it. Britain did not invent this genus of statecraft, but it has, over sixty years of housing policy, perfected it to an almost symphonic degree. …
