Paul Lay
@_paullay
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Senior Editor, Engelsberg Ideas. Author of Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate. Co-host 1666 and All That. Amused sceptic. Was WBCU-C.
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Joined September 2010
RT @AmIRightSir: The last surviving person to have been awarded the Victoria Cross during the Second World War, John Cruickshank, has died….
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John Cruickshank suffered 72 injuries during the bombing raid on a U-boat in 1944 but refused medical treatment.
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RT @mehmet_y_c: ‘I truly once thought that good history will live outside the academy if you just open it up to social media without any pe….
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RT @WarintheFuture: I have just published a short initial assessment on the outcomes of the Alaska Summit. A caveat is that we are likely t….
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Do you get fined if you go a year without losing at home?.
If Aston Villa avoid defeat against Newcastle on Saturday, they will have gone 365+ days without losing at home in the Premier League 😍. #AVFC
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RT @justin_hart: That is some decent trolling and orchestration there. B2-bomber with F-22 escort do a fly-over and Trump and Putin walk to….
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RT @EngelsbergIdeas: The Yasukuni Shrine is more than just a memorial to Japan's war dead. The Yasukuni Shrine and the shadow of the past….
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The Yasukuni Shrine is more than just a memorial to Japan's war dead.
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RT @SouthCoastToons: I almost feel like #AVFC are now my second team. Over the last few years seeing how incredible they have done, only to….
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RT @SimonMagus: I think the jury is right about Ricky Jones. And I think the judge who jailed Lucy Connolly was wrong. Perhaps we can step….
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RT @adwooldridge: The left has inevitably pillories schools such as Florida Universities Hamilton School of classical and civic Education a….
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The revival of liberal education in the guise of “civic” or “classical” education is a good thing for America.
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RT @adwooldridge: Not all the news from US academia is bad: wise universities, particularly flagship state universities in Red and Purple S….
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RT @HenryGJeffreys: James Marriott is on particularly good form this week looking at the best cultural things on Youtube including Kenneth….
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RT @si_rubinstein: You can now listen to my essay on the @EngelsbergIdeas podcast: .
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The EI Podcast · Episode
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RT @wikeleyjb: "The book in which George Orwell is most himself.". I'm over at @EngelsbergIdeas today, making the case for a much-neglected….
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Animal Farm works at a deeper level than politics. It is an allegory about human nature, and George Orwell's greatest work.
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A verdict delivered, interestingly, in 1688. Dryden a notorious turncoat.
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