Tricks

This is seminal paper on the Anglosphere by James C Bennett. It covers the first introduction of what had been an obscure term created by Neal Stephenson to describe a 'network civilisation' in a future world. Bennett was adopted the term applied it to what he proposed was an emergent post-war (WW2) network civilization. It was…

Speech by Hugh Gaitskell (UK Labour Party Leader stating Labour's opposition to  the United Kingdom's accession to the European Economic Community (EEC). This speech is usually remembered for it's warning that Britain's inclusion in an emergent 'federal' Europe would end one thousand years of history. In fact, the Labour leader had a lot more to say…