Well that’s more historic. The New Year was reckoned to start in March (the rebirth of Spring) until the 18thC….

💯 - and why arguments from pure force turn out to be extremely brittle to put it mildly.

Hobbes said loyalty to the Sovereign ends if the Sovereign can no longer defend the people; but the good folk of Minnesota may find that more relevant than the Greenlanders…

Tony Benn famously said: ‘The Labour Party isn’t a Socialist party; it’s a party with some socialists in it.” It’s interesting to watch that old truth passing into history.

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There is libertarian and statist messaging going on simultaneously that surely can't hold.

Truly.

Indeed. The Prince is how to manage once you’ve lost.

This is one of those areas where a bit of historical perspective is instructive; the language Renaissance princes used in public versus what we now know they were actually doing in reality only one of many examples….

“What women by nature cannot do, it is quite superfluous to forbid them from doing. What they can do, but not so well as the men who are their competitors, competition suffices to exclude them from”

And it’s largely to him that we owe the idea that if your security is exclusively in the hands of a “well-regulated militia” of citizen volunteers, then it can never be used by the government against its own people.

Thank you. Stay safe.

I know his name isn’t popular these days, but Machiavelli was saying 500 years ago that a Republic only survives if the people are constantly vigilant and never become complacent.