Trump and the DOGE bros make it look bad—but we can thank some oligarchs of centuries past for helping to lay the foundations ...

Prince of Sicily said in the wonderful novel The Leopard, ‘If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

When common law was being created, or accumulated, there were initially no political parties, and even when parties came into existence, Whigs and Tories did not disagree so wildly that there ...

Birthplace of Winston Churchill, Blenheim Palace has a rich history of aristocratic owners - but the secret scandals behind ...

followed by Anthony Henley (Tory) with 213 votes, and John Conduit (Whig) with 212. Evidence revealed a conspiracy to ensure Henley's victory and Conduit's defeat. Braceridge, determined to ...

And they have been joined by the stylistically kindred, happily vacuous tectonic bling of Gordon Brown’s mercifully brief stewardship, and of what Hatherley insists on calling the ‘Tory–Whig coalition ...

Mr. FITZROY first gained his election there on Tory principles, and with difficulty retained his position after he became first a Peelite and then a Whig. The post he held in the Administration ...

The most relevant portion may be traced to 1784 when William Pitt the Younger emerged as the leader of a Tory Party which represented the interests of merchant classes and country gentry, while a Whig ...

Dissertation On The Rise, Progress, Views, Strength, Interests And Characters, Of The Two Parties Of The Whigs And Tories (Online) ...

(See Thorpe for details.) He was MP for Maidstone (1784-1788) and Rutland (1788, 1808, 1814-1838) and though he began as a Whig moved increasingly to being a supporter of Tory governments but then ...

“I have no respect for the Whigs”, said the old Tory Wordsworth, “but I have a great deal of the Chartist in me”.’ (The Age of Revolution, 1962, p. 259.) 31Louis Althusser, Reading Capital, tr. Ben ...