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Spotlight: Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Highly regarded by Romans as a real life legend, Cincinnatus’ (520BC – 430BC) actions inspired numerous organisations/other groups that are named in his honour. Cincinnatus was a political figure of...
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Prince Charles – A False-flag Republican?
Prince Charles himself. Thomas Paine, writing a warning for the Americans on the monarchy said that “Such an unwise, unjust, unnatural compact might in the next succession put them under the government...
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Republican Principles in 18th c. Britain
233 years and 4 days ago, John Dunning MP successfully moved a motion that stoutly attempted to make firm Parliament’s sovereignty. This was a key stage in Britain’s democratic and republican growth,...
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Poland & the Postcolonial
Poland has, for hundreds of years, been surrounded and conquered by its neighbours. Recent history up until the very late 20th century has been no better, with Soviet-imposed massacres and brutal...
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The BBC sets the agenda on the Royal family (Republic)
Please note that I didn’t write this, but am reposting it from the campaign for a British Republic ( http://www.republic.org.uk/updates/?p=907 ). The headline is: ‘BBC accused of blocking embarrassing...
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Mapping Eastern Europe, a Postcolonial Narrative?
The EURASIA PROJECT, formally unveiled two years ago by Vladimir Putin, can be described as ‘essentialist’ in postcolonial terms. Essentialism is the practice of groups deciding upon identities, which...
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Postcolonialism – Key Terms
Since these terms can often be hard to pin down, I’m giving some quick definitions of words I may use every so often. Note that this is me writing from my phone, so I apologise for any mistakes made....
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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Szlachcic na zagrodzie równy wojewodzie. The noble on his estate is equal to the voivode. This is a Polish proverb, part of the legacy that came with the Commonwealth, that basically means that no...
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Orientalism in the Polish Borderlands Culture
The “Borderlands” are a region to the East of Poland with a longstanding mythology in Polish discourse. Being at different points in history part of the Polish state, they are a central place of...
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How we see Russia
Daniel Treisman, an ‘area studies’ scholar on Russia, wrote of two methods that people use to write about Russia. The first approach is to focus on the country’s dark side, to present Russia as a land...
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Arbitrary and Unlimited Power, Thrown Away
The monarch’s job is to continue arbitrary and unlimited power, and hand most of it over to government. In 2003, Blair used this to declare war on Iraq without prior parliamentary approval, in 1992,...
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