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@CapelLofft "The simple fact which is commonplace among historians but hasn't seeped into popular consciousness is that it wasn't a class war or mainly a constitutional conflict. It was chiefly a religious war with strong elements of contemporary European wars of religion (30 Years' War)"
X Link @CapelLofft 2025-10-16T09:02Z 38.3K followers, 3880 engagements

"I remain in economic terms in many respects an old nation-state-centric social democrat. But the trouble with e.g. nationalisation is that I don't trust the current state given how utterly ham-fisted & culturally corrupted it is to run a whelk stall let alone utilities"
X Link @CapelLofft 2025-10-16T09:36Z 38.3K followers, 4191 engagements

"Personally I find a British government deliberately collapsing a trial against Chinese spies while handing over Chagos to a Chinese client state and showing every other sign of being Beijing's bitch to be worthy of more attention than it's getting"
X Link @CapelLofft 2025-10-08T10:16Z 38.2K followers, 85.4K engagements

"Any government whatever its substantive agenda would need to radically reform the state to make it an effective tool in the hands of elected governments. Otherwise you're sitting in an office pulling levers that do nothing while civil servants smile and nod at you"
X Link @CapelLofft 2025-10-16T09:46Z 38.3K followers, 1717 engagements

"And there is certainly none of the moral & rhetorical power needed draw people to the good & the just. If the arc of history bends towards people like Keir Starmer - ethical and imaginative blanks legalistic ghosts pretending to be human beings - then we are all fucked"
X Link @CapelLofft 2025-10-15T21:20Z 38.3K followers, 1903 engagements

"People often ask 'would I have been a Cavalier or Roundhead' but the reality is that XX% of people in 2025 who think they would have been Roundheads would quickly reconsider their decision if they had a time machine & met the real Roundheads (mainly bonkers Puritan headbangers )"
X Link @CapelLofft 2025-10-16T08:51Z 38.3K followers, 33K engagements

"What I would like to read (and will commission if I can get anyone to write it) is a history of the political geography of Britain from say 1641-today - from the contours of the civil war (e.g. royalist west country/Wales puritan East Anglia) through to today"
X Link @CapelLofft 2025-10-16T11:39Z 38.3K followers, 2218 engagements

"I am always struck by the irony of the statue of Cromwell outside the Palace of Westminster. Ah yes the man who purged the Long Parliament into the Rump Parliament then forcibly dissolved the Rump Parliament then imposed his own sham parliament (Barebones).and so on"
X Link @CapelLofft 2025-10-16T13:10Z 38.3K followers, 8863 engagements

"No leadership no judgement none of the imaginative energy and willingness to take a risk or think outside the rigid tram lines drawn up by some dried-up husk of a lawyer that is needed to be a true leader. Just ethically anaemic little men in suits cavilling about trivia"
X Link @CapelLofft 2025-10-15T21:16Z 38.3K followers, 2268 engagements

"@PFauldsey Sure but people who are now working age now face a far far worse situation"
X Link @CapelLofft 2025-10-15T09:14Z 38.2K followers, XX engagements

"I was previously unaware of the existence of a good Oliver Cromwell during the Civil War: Sir Oliver Cromwell of Ramsey the Lord Protector's uncle. Although coerced by his wretch of a nephew into giving money to the rebellious Roundheads he was a staunch Royalist"
X Link @CapelLofft 2025-10-12T21:40Z 38.2K followers, 5462 engagements

"If we could get other things right such as prioritising support for families and children and education and wean our economy off asset inflation rental income and debt then we can ensure pensioners live decent lives. But we have to be realistic: we can't carry on like this"
X Link @CapelLofft 2025-10-15T09:05Z 38.3K followers, 1171 engagements

"The truth is simple. A very desperate Treasury gagging for the Chinese to 'invest' in (buy up another chunk of) the British economy to bolster nominal growth wants to give free rein to the Chinese to spy on & subvert us. There's a word for this. Treason"
X Link @CapelLofft 2025-10-10T08:28Z 38.2K followers, 38.7K engagements

"He died his estates having been sequestered by parliament but partly recovered later in 1655 well into his 90s having collapsed while drying himself on a rainy day by the fire. He fell into the hearth and perished of his burns"
X Link @CapelLofft 2025-10-12T21:44Z 38.2K followers, 1757 engagements

"Basically much of our political establishment sees our future as being an economic colony auctioned off partly to China partly to the US. If you are a colony then who cares whether your masters interfere with your national security They already own your arse"
X Link @CapelLofft 2025-10-10T08:30Z 38.2K followers, 1216 engagements

"The British economic model: import infinity immigrants to work for poverty wages to line the pockets of US private equity firms. What do we get: some tax revenue (though dependents make it fiscally net negative) & the long term pension consequences of the immigration ponzi scheme"
X Link @CapelLofft 2025-10-10T17:57Z 38.2K followers, 6509 engagements

"Earlier I tweeted something implying that Hamas had killed female hostages. I realise that is incorrect I have deleted it. They are still cruel medieval murderers who are misogynists and rapists but the truth matters. I should have checked more carefully"
X Link @CapelLofft 2025-10-13T13:21Z 38.2K followers, 10.7K engagements

"Woody is of course entitled to his view of my book 'The Rage of Party'. Not detailed enough is one criticism I never thought my XXX page tome would face but c'est la vie. However if you disagree with Woody feel free to write a different sort of Amazon review"
X Link @CapelLofft 2025-10-08T09:29Z 38.2K followers, 2016 engagements

"Look if I have come across as hostile to pensioners I apologise. Obviously I don't want people to face hardship in old age. But the long-term realities of a low-growth economy with an ageing population and the triple lock are not pretty: that's just reality"
X Link @CapelLofft 2025-10-15T09:01Z 38.3K followers, 7004 engagements

"@willieckerslike @MissLauraMarcus The basic point - Hamas are monsters who rape and attack women - remains the same. How is a tweet saying 'oops got it wrong' worse Odd hostility"
X Link @CapelLofft 2025-10-13T13:11Z 38.2K followers, XX engagements

"@_paullay I wasn't talking about nasty foreign types of absolutism but sound English Anglican ones"
X Link @CapelLofft 2025-10-16T10:43Z 38.3K followers, XXX engagements