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The Norman Yoke

For three centuries, the claim that England's elite was a foreign occupation was the radical left's founding story. Today the same argument is coded far right. The evidence, inconveniently, never moved.

The Crossbencher · 18 Jul 2026 · 4 min read

The Long View

Who kept the loaf

The Saxon-and-Norman story of English is partly a Victorian romance, and the sceptics who say so are right. Sort the borrowed words by what they are for, and something survives the debunking.

The Crossbencher · 17 Jul 2026 · 4 min

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