52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn’t Get Taught At School

by James Felton

In 1820, before the First Opium War, China’s economy was the largest in the world. After the end of the Second Opium War, we left them with half the GDP and millions of drug addicts. But in our defence, we got quite a lot of Earl Grey.

We pinched so much from around the world that walking into a museum in London is basically like walking into an evidence locker with a cafe.