No principles, please, we’re British.

It’s an old strain, that pokes out of Oakeshot, Popper, Bentham, Hume, you name it. Burke on the right and Mill on the left sipped the poison.

The politics of the mid to late seventeenth century were simply too traumatic for the mother country. The best analysis is Old Mortality, by Sir Walter Scott.

The wing-nuts came to America.