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Social Commentary

Will the Saints Go Marching in?

BY NIALL MCCRAE The first port of call, on JB Priestley’s tour of England in 1933, was Southampton. That phrase is appropriate, because the city is best known as Britain’s gateway to the ocean. Cruise-ships proliferate nowadays, but Southampton retains the regular trans-Atlantic service to New York (crossing on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2). Narrowing of the English Channel between the neck of Cherbourg and Portland Bill … Continue reading Will the Saints Go Marching in?

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History

Did Sussex Smugglers Inspire the US Constitution?

BY NIALL McCRAE & SLOBODAN ANTONIJEVIC High taxes levied to fund war, leading to hundreds of thousands of dead conscripts and a shattered economy: since the birth of nations, this pattern has repeated. Sometimes the ordinary people resist, through individual or collective tax avoidance. In the eighteenth century, as the British government waged costly wars with America and France, ruinous duties on imports and exports … Continue reading Did Sussex Smugglers Inspire the US Constitution?

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