Well that makes no sense, unless you believe that a growing population is in itself undesirable. Britain, like all countries in the West, and increasing numbers of countries in the “Global South”, fa… (View Post)

I know it is popular to blame immigration for British reluctance to invest capital, but I still make a distinction. British wariness of capital investment seems to go back generations, and ultimately… (View Post)

Isn’t that the audience shot from that Brexity edition of Question Time? (View Post)

The slavery-dependent South stagnated while that anti-anti-slavery North industrialised, and grew wealthy. Discuss. (View Post)

I think this is broadly right. But some caveats: Britain banned the slave trade in 1807, whereas economic historians seem to keep pushing back the Industrial Revolution “lift off” later and later, pe… (View Post)