Start with the paper trail, because the paper trail doesn’t care about your politics. The people who owned plantations in Jamaica and the people who financed railways in Lancashire were often not two different groups. They were the same families, keeping two sets of books, moving capital from one to the other as the political…
You think there’s one ruling class? Please. The West is now a five‑ring circus of competing power brokers, each with its own hat, its own grudge, and its own plan to save (or burn down) the neighbourhood. First, the Incumbent Managerial Elite. These are your legacy CEOs, senior civil servants, military brass. They own the…