Rowland Hill calculated that a lower, flatter rate of postage would not only make the public better off and better read, but increase the Revenue.

Ordinary people put too much faith in the judgment of experts, which is bad for us and bad for the experts.

In 1843, a group of working men gathered in Rochdale to discuss how to ease the cost of living for their families, and the Co-op was born.

Economist Adam Smith warned that when Western commercial interests get involved in policy-making abroad, war and want are sure to follow.

Our peculiar brand of democracy and liberty is a noble thing, but we should be wary of recommending it to other countries.

Three years before the Great War, Rudyard Kipling recalled how one English king simply paid his bullying neighbours to stay at home.