You may have missed it, over the weekend, but the UK had an earthquake. No, not the 4.8 Richter earth tremor in Dudley, but the broad-shouldered masses of the good yeomanry of the nation, Celts and Saxons together, who marched on the bastions of the Jacobins in their Westminster haunts. 407,791 — four hundred and seven thousand! — good sons of the soil turned up on the Liberty and Livelihood March through London on what turned out to be the biggest civil liberty protest in British history. The backbone of the nation — labourers, agricultural tenants, country dwellers, gentleman farmers … Continue reading The Peasants Revolt