Backwards though it might seem compared to it's rivals like France and Germany, it has, thus far, had greater overall stability and sucess.
British politics has avoided full insurrection at home for four hundred years, it began an empire that dominated the world for a hundred and twenty four years and when the empire ended the relations between the homeland it's former dominions was unusually mild; The lack of bad blood from the fall of a large empire on such a scale has not been seen since the end of the Roman Empire.
I doubt it is an inherent superiority of the british race, or anything like that, but whether by design or merely blind luck we have been doing something right and I think it deserves some investigation to find out what.
Investigation that I should probably not be doing during the end of an essay deadline. Bad Greyblades![]()
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