Showing posts with label William Seward. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Seward. Show all posts
Wednesday, 22 May 2019

Seward: three telling tales retold

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Picking up where I left off last time , it must have been a terrible blow to William Seward not to win the Republican nomination for the pre...
Monday, 20 May 2019

A birthday that reminded me of a strange event

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Google – or was it Wikipedia? there are so many of these things these days and it matters so little which is doing the talking – reminded me...
Saturday, 6 August 2016

Corbyn, leadership – and Lincoln

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The British Labour Party’s tearing itself apart in a contest to choose a new leader, Owen Smith – or possibly to re-elect the existing one, ...
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Saturday, 17 October 2015

An early and illustrious exponent may explain why politicians indulge in so much BS

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When it comes to BS, I’m sure most would agree that few can rival politicians.  To be fair, I’ve worked, and even enjoyed working, with a ...
Wednesday, 14 October 2015

John McDonnell: what matters is that the decision was right, not how you got there

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The commentariat has been going wild in Britain this week. It ’s  been fascinated by the question of whether John McDonnell, newly appointed...
Friday, 18 September 2015

Collateral damage: how a bungled and misguided assassination claimed an unintended victim

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Most people know that John Wilkes Booth murdered Abraham Lincoln. What they may not know is that Booth had planned a triple assassination, t...
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Monday, 14 September 2015

Unifying, dynamic, inclusive: Corbyn sets out his stall

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So Jeremy Corbyn, within 48 hours of taking up the mantle of leader of the Labour Party and of the official British Opposition, has named hi...
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