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Anglo-America and Continental Europe — Part 3: How the Island Absorbed the Old
Blood and Faith. The second part left a question open. When the Anglo-Saxons came to Britain in the fifth century — did they drive out the British Celts, or mix with them? If they settled a swept-clean land, then the shared Germanic-Celtic law the second part spoke of is a fine construction with no people…
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Anglo-America and Continental Europe — Part 2: The Layer That Grew Back
What Lay Beneath the Empire. When Rome gave up its province of Britain, an older law surfaced beneath the crumbling administration — assemblies, elected kings, compensation in place of punishment. The map above shows the “before”: a lattice of dead-straight Roman roads and Latin town-names — Londinium, Eboracum, Camulodunum — laid over a land that…
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Anglo-America and Continental Europe — Part 1: Where the Divide Begins
We Are Free Only in the ‘We’. At a Green Party event in Germany not long ago, the party’s co-leader Franziska Brantner said it was time to rethink what freedom means. We are free only in the ‘we’. It is a misunderstanding, she argued, to think of freedom as a possession. That picture — freedom…
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The Last Liberals Disappeared from Germany in 1525
Why Europe Still Can’t Handle Elon Musk — and How Germany Killed Its Own Liberty 500 Years Ago