So poor was the management he provided that it famously spurred the English aristocracy into unionizing. That’s what led to Magna Carta. Magna Carta just meant ‘Great Charter’, though now it means so much more: some would call it the foundation stone of English liberty. If that’s true the architect of English liberty should be struck off by whatever organization regulates the metaphorical professions because it’s a bloody wobbly foundation. But English liberty has no architect – it just got thrown together by various accidents, one of which was John’s personality.
