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01 / belief
“I think that was incompatible with a peaceful set of circumstances because it wasn’t widespread enough.”
02 / belief
“One of the great pleasures, I would say, of traveling around the UK is that places that are maybe only 15 miles apart can look completely different because of that.”
03 / belief
“I think the answer is, it was really, in my view, overwhelmingly about religion.”
04 / belief
“To reimagine ourselves or to imagine the world of 17th-century England where religion is such a strong force, it involves a mental leap that I think sometimes people have been reluctant to do.”
05 / belief
“I think a lot of people have forgotten that there was a revolution in the British Isles, and it was a republic for 10 years.”
06 / belief
“I think the buildings of that period, the political thought, the poetry — all these things we should all know more about, we should teach it more to our children, and we should celebrate it.”
07 / belief
“If we think of somebody like Louis XIV in France, it’s clear that over and above any of those practical requirements or questions of means, the magnificence of the monarch, and therefore of the institution of monarchy and so on, was something that he realized and expressed in buildings on a massive scale.”
08 / belief
“I think there’s a debate to be had about what the basis of that is, in terms of how you would come to have a seat in it. But I believe that a concern for our environment and the buildings and places in which we live and were built by our ancestors is a really universal one, and it doesn’t require you to have a particular social slice of society in the House of Lords to ensure it’s protected.”