21 July 2019 - publican

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2019 : 21 July 2019

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Public and Republic

A publican was originally a Roman tax collector. More recently, a publican is somebody who runs a pub, which taxes us in a more popular way. What is a republican?

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