Managing The Powerful.

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These essays will always be free, but you can continue to support my work by liking and commenting, and most of all by passing the essays on to others, and passing the links to other sites that you frequent. If you would like to take out a paid subscription I won’t stand in your way, (I’d be very honoured in fact) but I can’t promise you anything in return except a warm feeling of virtue. A special thank-you to those who have taken out paid subscriptions recently.I have also set up a Buy Me A Coffee page, which you can find here.☕️ Thanks to all of those who have recently contributed.And as always, thanks to others who tirelessly supply translation in their languages. Maria José Tormo is posting Spanish translations on her site here, and Marco Zeloni is also posting Italian translations on a site here, and Italia e il Mondo is posting them here. I am always grateful to those who post occasional translations and summaries into other languages just as long as you credit the original and let me know. And now:**************************************It’s odd how certain trivial things stay with you for the rest of your life. When I was at school, I remember reading—whether freely or as directed I can’t remember—JH Plumb’s popular history of England in the Eighteenth Century, then quite recently available in Penguin Books. Even at that age, I had a developing interest in sarky one-liners, and I remember to this day his description of the ascension of King George II to power: “George II was like his father. Stupid but complicated.” The House of Hanover has not generally had a good p…