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Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 9, 2025

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Started The Rise and Fall of the British Nation by David Edgerton.

I don't usually read history, I picked up this book on British 20th century political history in search of some reasons for why Britain has seemed to so consistently drop the ball since around 1960. It's doing a sterling job of putting me to sleep each night but I'm still in the early chapters dealing with the history of our political parties so that's probably par for the course.