Some folks mis-remember the story of old King Canute. We’ve heard the (surely apocryphal) tale told of Canute The Great ordering the ocean’s waves to stop, and they, of course, didn’t obey his ...

Canute the Great wasn’t just another Viking raider - he was a ruler who built one of the largest empires of his time. In the early 11th century, Canute conquered England and went on to unite Denmark, ...

To stop the flooding tide of public, parliamentary and press criticism of the efficiency of the Government’s production machinery. Winston Churchill last week cast himself in the role of Canute. In ...

The press played it up as one of the decade’s worst disasters. In a slow Easter week on Fleet Street, Britain’s newspapers called it another Battle of Britain. A few correspondents even quoted ...

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