The Elephant in the Bed
'The whole world's in a terrible state of chassis.' From the Great War to Gaza, from Kaiser Bill to President Trump: the chassis has never stopped rattling.
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Bruce Anderson
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Journalist · Commentator · Political Editor, The Spectator
The Long View — fifty years watching Britain govern itself
'The whole world's in a terrible state of chassis.' From the Great War to Gaza, from Kaiser Bill to President Trump: the chassis has never stopped rattling.
Read →From the Great War to Gaza, from Kaiser Bill to President Trump: the chassis has never stopped rattling.
Toryism is hard work. Burke, Hobbes, Oakeshott — the philosophy the Conservative party needs, and why the struggle continues.
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Bruce Anderson was born in Orkney in 1949 and read History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was political editor of The Spectator, wrote for the Daily Mail and The Independent, and continues to write the Spectator's Drink column.
This site is his attempt to do what the news cycle cannot: explain why things happened, and what they mean for where we are now.
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