The photos and videos posted on the Met's Facebook page inflamed factions pro and con that contemptuously regard each other as Luddites and Jacobins.

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In doing so, he inadvertently destroyed the chance of Denis Healey, a fellow right-winger, to succeed him and allowed Tony Benn's constituency Jacobins to spread their terror through the party.

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Later on, as a political hack in London, Wordsworth did ally himself with English Jacobins such as Wollstonecraft's future husband William Godwin, but his approach to politics was hardly dictated by dispassionate Godwinian rationalism.

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