No we didn't, that's a fundamental misreading of the facts. We grew rich because we had an industrial revolution. If it was off the backs of anyone's poor it was the UK's poor. Of all our colonies, o… (View Post)
We haven't done well in the last century. Personally I don't think spheres of influence ever went away. It's just that the US stepped well beyond its traditional sphere of influence because it rose t… (View Post)
So desperate to band together with someone, anyone. It is a national disease. We should ban the entering of all international commitments for a period of at least a decade whilst we conduct a search … (View Post)