Globalism: The System Behind Britain’s Decline
Is globalism driving Britain’s decline? In this episode, I connect the post-World War II globalist liberal consensus with mass migration, deindustrialisation and the loss of British manufacturing, foreign ownership of UK assets, trade and capital liberalisation, rising national debt, weak GDP-per-capita growth, and the erosion of British culture, national identity and belonging.
The post-war liberal international order was built partly in response to the horrors of nationalism and the Second World War. It helped deliver decades of relative peace—but did its rejection of borders, national…
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