Trump and the DOGE bros make it look bad—but we can thank some oligarchs of centuries past for helping to lay the foundations ...

Prince of Sicily said in the wonderful novel The Leopard, ‘If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

When common law was being created, or accumulated, there were initially no political parties, and even when parties came into existence, Whigs and Tories did not disagree so wildly that there ...

Birthplace of Winston Churchill, Blenheim Palace has a rich history of aristocratic owners - but the secret scandals behind ...

Melbourne was himself a Whig—a member of the party that ... an aversion to the Tory opposition.

followed by Anthony Henley (Tory) with 213 votes, and John Conduit (Whig) with 212. Evidence revealed a conspiracy to ensure Henley's victory and Conduit's defeat. Braceridge, determined to ...

Sir Robert Peel, a Tory, tried to form a government, but Victoria insisted on keeping Whig ladies at court. The decision struck Peel as a public show of her lack of confidence in his party ...

And they have been joined by the stylistically kindred, happily vacuous tectonic bling of Gordon Brown’s mercifully brief stewardship, and of what Hatherley insists on calling the ‘Tory–Whig coalition ...

Dissertation On The Rise, Progress, Views, Strength, Interests And Characters, Of The Two Parties Of The Whigs And Tories (Online) ...

(See Thorpe for details.) He was MP for Maidstone (1784-1788) and Rutland (1788, 1808, 1814-1838) and though he began as a Whig moved increasingly to being a supporter of Tory governments but then ...