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Photograph by Andrew Harnik / AP / Shutterstock In liberal democracies, voters have become sceptical of the archetypal career politician. In Germany, the resignation of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has held the role since 2005, has caused a mutiny amongst supporters of her centre-right Christian Democratic Union party. Voters who remained loyal to the CDU due to Merkel's personality are uninspired by the incoming leader of the party, Armin Laschet, and CDU polling figures have fallen accordingly. Laschet is widely regarded to be a career politician, having held public office since 1994, and is generally characterised as "boring". In the United States, famously, voters rejected Hillary Clinton, a woman who had served as Senator and Secretary of State, in favour of a man with no prior political experience; in fact, many voters cited Trump's lack of political experience as the reason they were attracted to his campaign. Both Germany and the United States are prosperou

1066 is widely regarded to be the most consequential year in the histories of England and Britain. The death of the heirless Edward the Confessor created a crisis of succession, resulting in numerous claimants to the English throne. The eventual coronation of William I resulted in a new dynasty of English kings, significant changes to the English language, and a novel government. Every schoolchild in England knows about the events of that year, and if asked to retell them, would likely recount the story portrayed in the Bayeux Tapestry and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. These two contemporary articles constitute the vast majority of our evidence for this period and therefore much of what children are taught about the creation of modern England is from documents that fall far shorts of what we might consider "reliable" today. Historians today look critically at the Bayeux Tapestry. Given that it was commissioned by the half-brother of William I, Bishop Odo, one might suspect that