By Dr. Sean Gabb To understand the rubbish heap that England has become, it is useful to look at the circumstances that prompted the emergence of the modern State in Europe. Around the end of the thirteenth century, the world entered one of its cooling phases. In a world of limited technology, this lowered the Malthusian ceiling – by which I mean the limit to which population was always tending, and beyond which it could not for any long time rise. Populations that could just about feed themselves during the warm period were now too More…