Counter-factuals are always speculative, but I wonder how things would have turned out, had the rebels lost. Would slavery have ended sooner, or would the US civil war have been fought across the who… (View Post)

I think the colonies would push West, but I doubt if the British would have had the same interest in encouraging mass migration from Europe. They had far more interest in trading with Latin America, … (View Post)

You will never get a Labour PM who is as left wing as you would like, because a Labour PM has to deal with the world as it is, not as you wish it to be. Attlee or Wilson would have infuriated you. (View Post)

I agree with all of that. (View Post)

The lesson for us, and peer nations, like Canada, France, Germany, Japan etc. is to hang together, or hang separately, but I fear that we’re mostly still at the stage of trying to score points off ea… (View Post)