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First Draft #34: a newsletter on public language The rhetoric of free trade; levers; Mrs Dalloway; Conclave

First Draft 34 is here, where you can read my brilliant colleagues' writing, including a celebration of both Virginia Woolf and a railway line's recent decision to stop implying suicide. And then a little complaint from me, on politicians speaking like 19th c. foremen.

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Soon even blind people will have only ‘the national interest’ to guide them

Perry Anderson · Regime Change in the West? Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures –...

‘How could such a traumatic shock to the system as the global financial crisis, and the discredit into which its leading agencies and nostrums inevitably fell, have been followed by so complete a reversion to business as usual?’

Perry Anderson on neoliberalism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Nothing says ‘change’ like stealing Reform’s homework and handing it in late.

Trump will now be judged like any other politician The abiding question for the 47th President of the United States of America is whether he now, after running against everything that counts as orthodox in the way of politics, has suddenly become a po...

"The conjuring trick, rhetorically, for every successful candidate is the extent to which he can maintain outsider status after an emphatic victory. That was the conundrum of Trump’s second inaugural."

✍️Our founder Philip Collins in The Spectator today:

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First Draft #33: a newsletter on public language Populist truths; Kipling, the King and Christmas; what to do with milestones; Welby bombs

Late sharing of some pieces on Kipling and Justin Welby

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