Tag Ferdinand Mount

“Weapons-grade solipsism”

My superficial impression of the Brexit controversy – which I tried to express in two words in a comment to this post – is of a high downside-to-upside ratio. Lots to lose and not much to gain. Of course it…

So nekulturny, so Dicey

Towards the end of his (paywalled) piece on Magna Carta in the London Review of Books, Ferdinand Mount writes: Belief in the untrammelled sovereignty of Parliament is now decidedly vieux jeu and nekulturny. Power is no longer clenched in Westminster…