
S01-EP01 - Maurice Glasman on democracy, creative destruction and Wolf Hall
TALKING POLITICS
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What Can We Learn From Tomas Cromwell?
Esce: I've been thinking about it watching wolf hall. Not once said you believe that we could learn from tudor statecraft. You watched wolf hall, i found myself thinking this as watching what can we learn de thoma cromwell 's a huge figurein in my life. He kind of had thomas cromwell. The basic idea is this, in 15 hundred england was a backward country. We were behind in science and ammunitions. But within a century, you had a transformation of the conditions of the nation. It wasn't done through policy but by creating autonomous institutions. That's why i think cambridge is such an important institution. Es
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