Apples and trees

There's apparently an article in the New Statesman this week, which claims to have been written by yours truly. We don't always claim responsibility for our actions, but I wrote it, I think:

Could hereditary political power be a more tenacious idea than we thought? Two centuries and more after republicanism supposedly set inherited authority on the slope to ruin, a surprising amount of power is still being wielded around the world by the sons of people who wielded it before them. Read more...