The UK is in a moment of crisis and mainstream economics is failing to respond.
Many of the challenges we face today – from the cost of living to climate breakdown – are the legacies of a deeper and darker history that forms the very bedrock of our modern economic system.
As the effects of this system bite harder, many people are asking how we arrived at this point – how this country was formed, and what, exactly, was the purpose of Britain’s 400-year empire.
