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Showing posts with label Hilaire Belloc. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Hilaire Belloc. Show all posts

Monday, July 14, 2025

Hilaire Belloc's persecution of Charles Masterman

I knew Charles Masterman had won the enmity of Horatio Bottomley, the publisher of John Bull magazine, over the Home Office inquiry into all...

Thursday, September 26, 2024

To him that hath shall be given: Hilaire Belloc's Mr Petre

Our leaders' appetite for the good things in life, and getting them for free, has put me in mind of a satirical novel I read years ago -...

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Ludlow wall's down and England's done

Twelve years ago, a section of Ludlow's medieval town wall collapsed. When I visited the town a couple of weeks ago I found that repairs...

Saturday, December 10, 2022

The Sins of G.K. Chesterton by Richard Ingrams

Writing in the latest issue of the London Review of Books, Peter Howarth reviews a book on G.K Chesterton by the former Private Eye editor ...

Friday, June 24, 2022

Hilaire Belloc's influence on A Canterbury Tale

This public lecture by Mr Colpeper (played by Eric Portman) from A Canterbury Tale is probably my favourite moment in probably my favourite ...

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

The Joy of Six 1038

"Johnson’s personal greed, hypocrisy, clumsy lies and sheer extravagance in overseeing the distribution of billions of pounds in govern...

Wednesday, March 04, 2020

GUEST POST Belloc, Chesterton and the Distributist League

In an extract from his Back to the Land , David Boyle looks at the emergence of Distrbutism as an ideology. By 1918, and G. K.’s brothe...

Wednesday, July 08, 2015

What was good about George Osborne's budget

The first unfettered Conservative budget for 18 years contained all the meanness towards the young, poor and disabled that you would ex...

Monday, February 09, 2009

Hilaire Belloc was a Liberal MP

Madelaine Bunting had an article in the Guardian today arguing that David Cameron should embrace the "neglected tradition of English r...

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