The Root Of All Evil
By Heordreedenn: There is a thought experiment – at least I hope it’s a thought experiment – concerning the best way to boil a frog. Apparently if you just chuck the hapless amphibian into a pan of boiling water it realises immediately that all is not well and jumps out at once. But if you put it in a pan of cold water, and heat it slowly, it never notices what is happening, or at least if…
The Roots Of British Nationalism
In 1902 the English writer Robert Blatchford coined the term ‘Britain For The British’ as the title of a book he published that year. An earlier work entitled ‘Merrie England’ had been first published in 1894 and these two books established Blatchford’s credentials both as one of the foremost socialist writers of his time and a founding father of the British Labour movement, but also as one of the founding fathers of British nationalism. Blatchford,…