“Henry VIII’s abolition of monasteries caused secular institutions to take over responsibility for University learning, hospitals, and social care for old age and infirmity;

 

The Civil War and Glorious Revolution transformed executive monarchy into a constitutional one, with eventual rule by the people for the people in Parliament, the Law Courts and Protestant Churches;

 

Repeated attacks on the island state led to the English forming and keeping the most powerful navy in the world, at the bidding of a Nation State, formulating and enforcing free trade and human freedoms;

 

Luther, Caxton, Wesley and potatoes, and eventually urban life and the Industrial Revolution, accentuated demands for human rights in the UK and globally, especially the abolition of Slavery.

 

Thus the English obsession with free trade and (uniquely) human rights evolved from licensed buccaneering Companies to embryonic accountable nation states, held together physically with road and rail links, telecommunications, and light government, recognising obligations to nurture those who are taxed.”