Reader, I promise thee here such things, which ordinarily promised, doe seeme to challenge the greatest attention, and I lay them here before thine eyes, whether thou regard the dignity or profit of the matter treated of, or the right method of handling it, or the honest motive, and good advice to undertake it, or lastly the moderation of the Authour.
Stella standards of free speech
The party conference season is over at last. Speeches ranged across the whole spectrum of hypocrisy – like every year. I managed to interview...
Conjecture of the Future
Sometime a man desires to know the event of an action; and then he thinketh of some like action past, and the events thereof one after another;...
The historian and the time machine
The best of historians are intellectual giants, providing a valued contribution to understanding. Of the others, we pass by. I am no historian...
Curbing knee-jerk legislation
An event, outraged headlines in the papers, confected emotion in the House of Commons, and we have another hasty, foolish Act of Parliament...
Justice and reason – 2
For the question is not of promises mutuall, where there is no security of performance on either side; as when there is no Civill Power erected over...