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‘Anglo-Gaullism’ piece for Unherd
With added extras and a Substack update
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Ben Cobley
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July 2023

The Last Post (for now)
Existential Politics is to go into hibernation for a while
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The Conservative Party as a progressive party
How economic expansion trumps conservation in the Tory world view
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On American (or Anglophone elite) hubris
They keep on mistaking their superior power for superior knowledge
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Mission: make cricket into an EDI bureaucracy
The ‘Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket’ is a classic stitch-up
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June 2023

What is progressive capitalism?
The elevation of novelty in our economic system makes it inherently progressive
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The seven-year long Rejoin campaign
The unpersoning of Boris Johnson seems to be part of the long game
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The best history of ideas you’ve never heard of
The Western Intellectual Tradition by Jacob Bronowski and Bruce Mazlish
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May 2023

John Locke and the problems of technocratic rule
Certain ideas about land and population seem to guide our present insanity
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The Tories in 2023: less a government than part of the supply chain
Further record migration numbers reflect a view of people as commodities
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Why The Wire is so good
Great fiction isn’t necessarily a product of genius
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April 2023

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