Andrew Melchior

“Thus, more of the ordinary person’s money got syphoned off into the Exchequer, where it largely financed war and paid the interest due to wealthy investors in the National Debt.”
― Roy Porter, English Society in the Eighteenth Century

“Globalism and tribalism have run to completion, diverging respectively into homogeneous interoperability and the Schwarzschild radius of insularity. Beings that remember being human plan the deconstruction of Jupiter, the creation of a great simulation space that will expand the habitat available within the solar system.”
― Charles Stross, Accelerando

“Out of 2,339 children received into London workhouses in the five years after 1750, only 168 were alive in 1755.”
― Roy Porter, English Society in the Eighteenth Century

“The Duke of Devonshire owned Hardwick Hall, Chatsworth, Bolton Abbey, Lismore Castle and Compton Place, and, in London, Burlington and Devonshire Houses. Prodigal peers and their heirs ran up astronomical debts – and mortgaging and other legal devices allowed them to do this without imperilling their estates.”
― Roy Porter, English Society in the Eighteenth Century