Matthew Brooker is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business and infrastructure. Formerly, he was an editor for Bloomberg News and the South China Morning Post. Leasehold buyers pay full ...

The phrase ‘feudal system’ wasn’t used at the time, but it started to be used by historians from the 18th century onwards to try to describe what life was like in the Middle Ages. Feudalism ...

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The desirability of change is clear. It’s high time England’s castle-dwelling serfs threw off their chains. More from Bloomberg Opinion: This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of ...