It was a pleasure to have dinner the other night with Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada,” President Donald Trump posted last month on Truth Social. “I look forward to seeing the ...

As we celebrate the Bard this weekend, our Writer at Large talks to the Scottish academic who has written the definitive account of the political ... he attacks the Whig Party”, which opposed ...

As we celebrate the Bard this weekend, our Writer at Large talks to the Scottish academic who has written the definitive account of the political exploitation ... Cry And Prayer “where he attacks the ...

the Whig candidate, at least in part because of his bullishness on the American empire. The election revolved around issues of Texas (and slavery) and the boundary dispute with the British Empire ...

In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

Early in 1776, King George consented to the hiring of thousands of Hessian mercenaries to assist the British ... the Tea Party. George was a contradictory character. The Whigs in Parliament ...

At the time the British forces were in ... treachery to HENRY CLAY and to the Whig Party, which had made him President, added a new term to our political vocabulary. His treachery to all men ...

HENRY, editor of Berkshire Whig and ex-member of Massachusetts Senate ... During the Crimean War he obtained a furlough, joined the British Army, and was twice wounded in the battle of Inkerman.

In Great Britain, the Labour Party broke away from the Liberal Party, which, in turn, had broken away from the Whigs. The salient point is that all political philosophies overlap untidily with others.

In an extract from The Conversation’s new book on democracy, we chart the origins of the parties that dominate politics today ...