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Ancient and modern

Sorry, Rory Stewart, but you don't understand the Greeks

The MP wants 'a thousand little city states'. But he clearly doesn't know what that would mean...

18 January 2014

9:00 AM

18 January 2014

9:00 AM

In last week’s Spectator, Rory Stewart, MP for Penrith, was reported to be proposing that we should create in Britain ‘1,000 little city states, and give power right down to all the bright, energetic people everywhere who just feel superfluous’. What did they teach him at Eton?

The ancient Greek city-state (polis, source of our ‘politics’, etc.)

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