Interestingly, they don’t especially blame Truss, with one saying she was essentially a fall-guy for Johnson. No flies on them. (View Post)

I think the fundamental essence of the British Empire was a business concern. Everything else - from the mission civilisatrice, to the “white supremacy”, accreted around that. (View Post)

How and why was it’s fundamental essence malign? Are you referring to its anti-democratic nature, in which case is every society in history pre circa 1850 “fundamentally malign”? (View Post)

If it was exploitative, does it mean that all capitalisms are “fundamentally malign”? (View Post)

Sunak seems to have been tempered by Hunt, he is not as batshit in practice as he promised to be on the leadership campaign trail. Neverthless, my long-standing view is that the British economy needs… (View Post)