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Thursday, October 23, 2014

The Prime Minister's speech: NB

In Stephen Harper’s speech to Parliament today about the “... increasing places where the planet is descending into savagery” our Prime Minister is again tipping his hat to the Conservatives’ favourite work of political philosophy, Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651) and the concept of the “war of all against all” which had its origins in the English Civil War.

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