Rupert Lowe
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1,164 appearances
9 recordings
8 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 9 Jul
Rupert Lowe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I, you know, I reflect on the U.S.
a lot because, as you probably know, that there was a man called John Lambert who played a part in the Civil War.
Oliver Cromwell's one of my great historical heroes.
Your Civil War.
In the British Civil War.
Yeah.
He and Henry Arton, when Cromwell won the Civil War,
He said, he always said, if I lose one battle, I lose my head.
The king can lose a hundred battles and he keeps his.
Well, he didn't fortunately lose a battle and he won the Civil War.
And then they had to work out how to govern.
And this guy, John Lambert and Henry Arton wrote this thing
this paper which ultimately guided, it was called The Instrument of Power, and its job was to effectively separate the powers that Cromwell was going to have as Lord Protector and put in the checks and balances, which is what you need in any form of democracy, proper checks and balances that controls any sort of aggregation of power which can be damaging.
You need some power, but you don't want anybody to become omnipotent.
And this was an incredible piece of work, which was then used in our Bill of Rights.
And then some of it was lifted by your founding fathers, Jefferson, Madison, Adams, and Jay, who effectively played a big part in writing the US Constitution, which is the best.
I think, attempt at setting out a sort of code for governance, which always return power to the individual states and to the individual, because it's always the individual who gets oppressed by the state.
And here we've got a state that now accounts for 50% of our GDP.
We've got, as I say, all these quangos, unaccountable people who are doing things which are damaging the interests of Britain, aggregating money and influence to themselves, but damaging the interests of those people they're supposed to be serving.
You know, they're called civil servants for a reason.
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