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George Owers is an editor and writer. Educated at Cambridge, where he received his PhD on 18th-century politics, he gained early experience of the viciousness of party rivalry in the low stakes world of local government, becoming a city councillor aged twenty-one. He now lives in the Cambridgeshire countryside. He has written regularly for The Critic and tweets as @CapelLofft. This is his first book.