Really! I expect more of the Chevalier. He is a historian, for land's sake. King St Edward the Confessor gave England its first set of laws? C'mon! Here's a list of Kings, all well before St Edward, who issued laws: Æthelberht, Hlothhere and Eadric, Withraed; Ine of Wessex, Offa, Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder, Æthelstan, Edmund I, Edgar, Æthelred and Cnut.
And he can't even weasel that some of them didn't give laws to 'England', just one of the earlier Kingdoms. Cnut the Great was King of all England.
I've shared a couple of things about The End of Democracy, by Christophe Buffin de Chosal, but I haven't had a chance to read it yet. I look forward to doing so.
In the answer on Catalan secession, the Chevalier points out that the Catalan language is one that Our Lady spoke, surprisingly enough, in France. The district of Lourdes speaks a dialect of Catalan.
He points out that it is the anti-clerical, atheist, leftists that are behind the movement for 'independence', as well as the fact that they are republicans.
I have shared several videos and articles dealing with Chesterton's close affiliation with Liberalism (Belloc sat as a Liberal MP). It is a complicated question and the Chevalier does a good job of explaining it.
The excerpt on the Nazi Nanny State anti-smoking hysteria is good. Remember! Hitler was a virulent anti-smoker!
The End of Democracy 2:25
Catalonian Secession 8:39
Chesterton & Liberalism 17:00 Anti-Smoking Hysteria 21:22 Count Vlad Tepes 30:13 Good Parenting and Corporal Punishment 35:03 Catholic-Approved Economic Systems 48:18 The End of the Boy Scouts 51:36 Is the End Near? 1:12:23
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