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It's official in the print edition of today's Times. Not only is 'The Rage of Party' a @thetimes book of the year, it is *the* history book of the year.
Capel Lofft
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✝️ Political and ecclesiastical history, Anglicanism, literature. Author of 'The Rage of Party: How Whig versus Tory Made Modern Britain'.
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I am slightly bamboozled by a secular culture in which any sexual ethic beyond 'if it's legal & there's consent it's fine' has been treated as unforgivably reactionary paternalism suddenly have a bout of hyper-moralism over Walliams. By liberal standards, what has he done wrong?
Also a parliamentary reformer who was very keen on some slightly mad ancient saxon constitutionalism (he wanted to revive tithings and hundreds). Plus a keen Anglican who was often hilariously arch about his fellow reformers' unitarianism (he compared them to 'Mohammedans')
Abolitionist and writer Granville Sharp was born #onthisday in 1735. He was one of the twelve founder members of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, working alongside campaigners including William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson. He is remembered with a memorial tablet in the Abbey's south transept which details his life's work and records that 'he was incessant in his labours to improve the condition of mankind.'View quoted post on X
I enjoy the fact that the lady who comes in to clean for us once a week, the terrific Louise, always arranges an amusing tableau for my son in his bedroom. This week, Moomin Potter.
You could cast Timmy Mallett and it would surpass Craig in both.
Whoever is chosen as the next James Bond, I think it’ll be almost impossible for them to surpass Daniel Craig in terms of talent and charisma.View quoted post on X
