That's a novelty - they normaly 'blame' all that on the puritan/republican regime of the 1640's/50's...How about Pitt's use of spies, false money to fuck the economy, nazi-style Atlantic food blockades, agents provocateurs disguised as revolutionaries...? Will they get a mention?
God, I hope they don't wheel John Gray out to compare the Jacobins to Al Quaida and George Bush!
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Date: 2009-06-04 09:49 am (UTC)God, I hope they don't wheel John Gray out to compare the Jacobins to Al Quaida and George Bush!