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Traditional British food, it seems, is the latest battleground in the culture wars. Parkin, a delicious if rather high calorie Yorkshire cake, is to be investigated by Leeds City Council for possible links to slavery and colonialism. This traditional delicacy if that’s the right word for parkin dates back to the 18th century, and the problem is it’s made with ginger, treacle and sugar. These products, so it has been suggested, were only made available to the county’s bakers as a by-product of British colonial expansion. You can look at this in two ways. It has already been reported as yet another example of the rise of woke, on which Boris Johnson has declared war. But the Prime Minister has also declared war on obesity. ....
Mises on Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Right of Self-Determination For Mises, liberalism first emerged and expressed itself in the nineteenth century as a political movement in the form of “peaceful nationalism.” Its two fundamental principles were freedom or, more concretely, “the right of self-determination of peoples” and national unity or the “nationality principle.” The two principles were indissolubly linked. The primary goal of the liberal nationalist movements (Italian, Polish, Greek, German, Serbian, etc.) was the liberation of their peoples from the despotic rule of kings and princes. Liberal revolution against despotism necessarily took on a nationalist character for two reasons. First, many of the royal despots were foreign, for example, the Austrian Hapsburgs and French Bourbons who ruled the Italians, and the Prussian king and Russian Czar who subjugated the Poles. Second, and more important, political realism dictated “the necessity of setting ....
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