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We should be more generous to our former prime ministers – and, yes, that includes David Cameron The US reveres its past presidents, while we banish our leaders into a purgatory of forced retirement.
Former prime ministers Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, David Cameron and John Major at Westminster Abbey in 2019 When British prime ministers visit Washington, DC they can stay in a government-owned townhouse called Blair House. The property is part of the bequest to the nation that includes the Pennsylvania Avenue Presidential Townhouse, the grand home once owned by the great Supreme Court judge Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr and which every former US president can use when he is in town. It is a stark illustration of the varying degrees of respect the two nations hold for the former occupants of their top post.
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Carrie Buck and her mother, Emma, at the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, 1924
The top-down quest for social control in America often seems to lead, by a deep-seated sort of homing instinct, to schemes of reproductive coercion. Tucker Carlson’s recent fulminations about racial “replacement theory” are but the latest in a long line of pseudo-Darwinian depictions of social decline. Carlson himself, of course, was cribbing his ugly tirade from the baldly fascist speculations of scores of alt-right propagandists, who in turn gained unprecedented access to state power via the labors of racist Trump apparatchiks like Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller.
At issue was whether or how to pay almost $34 million in debt that the Commonwealth of Virginia incurred when it sold bonds between 1822 and 1861 to raise money to subsidize construction of canals, toll roads, and railroads. The state sold most of the bonds during the 1850s for railroad construction and used the money to purchase stock in the corporations that the General Assembly created for constructing what at the time were called internal improvements. Most of the debt was in the form of bonds that paid 6 percent annual interest and matured in thirty-four years. The Virginia debt was by far the largest of any southern state when the Civil War began, and by small margins it was the third largest in the United States, after only Pennsylvania and New York. Per capita or per taxpayer, it was actually two or three times the Pennsylvania or New York debts. At that time, the debt did not appear to present a potential future problem for Virginia. Its creation reflected the overall confid
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