During the spring of 1975, the Wall Street Journal ran a powerful headline. Goodbye Great Britain, the American business newspaper declared.
The United Kingdom was known as the sick man of Europe. Investors were taking flight in the face of its ruinous economic performance and endemic industrial strife. Greatness had made way for spiralling decline.
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