Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: If the history of Britain in the last 150 years has been of slowly accelerating ...

If the history of Britain in the last 150 years has been of slowly accelerating decline, then perhaps the only #political fact we need to know is that for 90 of those years, the #Tories were in government.

Oh, sure its more complicated than that, with all sorts of post-imperial issues shaping our recent past, but still when one party has been in charge for nearly two thirds of the last century & a half, one has to think they must take a reasonable share of the blame?