It lifted our country - and eventually much of the world - out of poverty, saving millions from a life that was miserable, brutish and short Source - Daily Telegraph - 29/09/21 Link Is there nothing in British history that cannot be co-opted and used against us? Woke historians get a kick out of trashing our imperial legacy. SNP publicists rewrite the history of the Union. And now, green warriors, led by Greta Thunberg, want us to regard Britain’s part in the industrial revolution as a source of shame, an original sin for which we must all repent. Even Michael Gove has previously talked of us having a “moral responsibility” to lead on climate change. Yet making Britain a villain for the crime of kick-starting a period of rapid technological advancement which laid the foundations of the modern world as we know it could hardly be more short-sighted. In the narrowest sense, perhaps, one might say the industrial revolution was “bad for the planet”: it was built on burning fossil fuels, aft...