The Politics of Time - Mint Magazine

Lifting a lid on British politics, Ian Dunt’s book is in equal measure critical and unnerving. Apart from the House of Lords and special select committees, Dunt sees fatal flaws in every aspect of contemporary British government. The system, he argues, is not fit for purpose.  Three examples -

Duncan Weldon outlines the contours of British economy history since the early 1800s. Since I can barely remember what I had for breakfast, I’ll focus on the years following WWII. From the 1940s-1970s, Weldon suggests there was a “great deal of economic continuity”. The most notable policy consistency was

These books examine a similar theme. The end of empire. Though ruling civilisations – the Dutch, French, British, etc. – collapse in unique ways, they exhibit similar patterns of breakdown which characterize the USA today.  Hedges begins his book by describing the outsized role of America’s military. The US, he contends,