# Blog Excerpt: William Cobbett and the Great Population Conspiracy

We all know somebody who is confident that they know how the world works but fails to predict what will happen next Tuesday. William Cobbett possessed an almost supernatural ability to get the big picture spectacularly wrong, insisting Britain’s population was plummeting whilst it was actually exploding in the most remarkable demographic boom in world history.

I first discovered Cobbett in the local history section of my local library. His travels took him across a big chunk of the country, but focused on the south east of England. Initially I thought I was simply getting the recollections of a Victorian traveler, the interest being comparing what he saw with the current

The Gaza crisis might soon, thankfully, be over. What are the implications for the future of the region. Does it mean the end of Israel has moved closer?

Long before Tony Robbins discovered the power of positive thinking, before Jordan Peterson began lecturing young men about cleaning their rooms, and centuries before the internet spawned an army of life coaches promising to unlock your potential, there was William Cobbett – dispensing advice with the confidence of a man who’d never met a problem

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