Tag: Adam Smith

  • Prime Minister Shelburne,  Disliked, Not Trusted, Therefore Doomed

    Prime Minister Shelburne, Disliked, Not Trusted, Therefore Doomed

    Shelburne was intelligent, able, wise and had great political knowledge, but he was detached from both the Whigs and Tories…that he had earned the incurable dislike and distrust of everyone important. His nickname was ‘Malagrida’ – after a notorious Portuguese Jesuit conspirator. So, not good then, but should have been.…