# Arthur Balfour
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Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (; 25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930), was a British Conservative statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. He also later served as foreign secretary in the Lloyd George ministry, from 1916 to 1919.
Balfour trained as a philosopher – he originated an argument against believing that human reason could determine truth – and was seen as having a detached attitude to life.
Legacy Life Reflections: There's Still a Snap in the Old Celery! Wit, Legacy and a Happy Life in Words with Harry Mount, Editor of 'The Oldie' Magazine
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What if staying sharp has nothing to do with age and everything to do with curiosity? We sit down with Harry Mount, editor of The Oldie, for a brisk, generous tour through a life shaped by language, architecture, bicycles, and the courage to change course. Harry opens with the soul…
Episode 93 - The ruinous war costs 1.25m pounds a week & Lord Kitchener receives a telegram
The winds of war have been blowing cold across the veld, shrivelling the corpses that lie across hundreds of kilometres in all directions. It is the beginning of July 1901.
Emily Hobhouse was so excited because finally, after weeks of cajoling, she would have an opportunity to put her report on t…
Britain's Policy of Deceit in Palestine
After nearly two years, A Conversation Before the World Ends returns with an examination of how the British Empire engineered permanent conflict in Palestine through systematic deception.Between 1915 and 1925, Britain made contradictory promises to Arabs, European allies, and Zionists about the fut…
Legacy Life Reflections: Still a Snap in the Old Celery! Wit, Legacy and a Happy Life in Words with Harry Mount, Editor of 'The Oldie' Magazine
What if staying sharp has nothing to do with age and everything to do with curiosity? We sit down with Harry Mount, Editor of The Oldie Magazine, for a brisk, generous tour through a life shaped by language, architecture, bicycles, and the courage to change course. Harry opens with the soul of the …
Legacy Life Reflections: Still a Snap in the Old Celery! Wit, Legacy and a Happy Life in Words with Harry Mount, Editor of 'The Oldie' Magazine
What if staying sharp has nothing to do with age and everything to do with curiosity? We sit down with Harry Mount, Editor of The Oldie Magazine, for a brisk, generous tour through a life shaped by language, architecture, bicycles, and the courage to change course. Harry opens with the soul of the …
Enduring Enthusiasm
“Few things are worse than running in the wrong way enthusiastically.”
— Lee Brower
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles, 1841
Emerson was right. But here’s what he didn’t say. “It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so…
Matters of Interest: Starmer Walks Away & Sovereignty is Back in Fashion
In this week’s Matters of Interest, Lee and Richard discuss Starmer’s decision to resign as an MP – and look at how his departure is part of a much bigger change in the relationship between former prime ministers and Parliament. Will any future PM do as Arthur Balfour and Edward Heath did and stay …
Arthur Balfour
Arthur Balfour is often remembered as the nephew of Lord Salisbury and the author of the famous Balfour Declaration of 1917, but his own time as Prime Minister tells a fascinating story of a Britain in transition.
In this episode of The British Prime Ministers, We explore the life and career of Art…
Episode 1: Balfour, Montagu and Zionism
In the first episode of The Cambridge Prehistory of Partitions, Waqas Mirza and historian Erin O’Halloran begin with the First World War and the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire.
They trace Britain’s overlapping wartime commitments, the 1917 Balfour Declaration, and the sharply opposing positions …
Oct. 7th, Friday Night Lights, Oil Field Money, and the Bombs Over Gaza: It Was Always One Ledger
How much money do you need to blow up a 12 year old in Gaza? How much funding do you need to blow up a pregnant woman in the West Bank? How much? How much do you need?
Today is October 7th, 2026, the third anniversary of the attack on Israel, and I know a bunch of Zionists are pissed off when they …
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