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Weimar Britain: lessons from history in radical times

Michael Gove

The Ancient Greeks believed the past was in front of us and the future
behind. Man could look history in the face and learn from it, while the
future was unknowable, hidden, the wind whistling at our back.

It is in history, its patterns, and what it reveals about human nature,
that we have the best guide to our times and how they might develop. The government may wish us to focus on innovation this week rCo new nuclear reactors, AI data centres, OpenAIrCOs Sam Altman and NvidiarCOs Jensen Huang at the state banquet rCo but if we really want to understand the
convulsions gripping our society it is to the past we should look for signs.

The tens of thousands who marched through London at the weekend demanding their country back has been reported as an unprecedented example of mass reactionary protest rCo a new militancy in defence of what has been lost.
But we have seen this before. In Tudor times the Pilgrimage of Grace was
a grassroots uprising in defence of the old Catholic faith and against
Henry VIIIrCOs modernisation. The Sacheverell riots in 1710 were a popular reaction in favour of tradition against the Whig commercial elite. The Luddites of the early 19th century were resolute for the inherited ways
of working against the restless apostles of change. The phlegmatic nature
of the English character should not be mistaken for placidity, especially
when what is customary, familiar and traditional is challenged, as it has
been in the past two decades by wrenching economic and demographic
change. Kipling was right to warn that elite condescension towards
provincial England is a dangerous path: rCyWhen he stands like an ox in the furrow rCo with his sullen set eyes on your own, / And grumbles, rCLThis isnrCOt fair dealing,rCY my son, leave the Saxon alone.rCO

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https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/weimar-britain-lessons-from-history-in-radical-times/

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