It was the judgment of the historian Eric Hobsbawm that “the most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system”. And yet the UK seems determined to try to hold back the metrological tide. Fighting the metric system seems, at first, a little quixotic. After all, who cares whether you buy your fruit and veg in pounds or kilos, so long as the price is right? Yet for millennia, control over measurement has been incredibly important for countries, and this connection between

Source: The Times June 05, 2022 15:32 UTC