The mid-nineteenth century was the immense time of British radicalism. Illustrative of the time was William Ewart Gladstone, who served as leader four times somewhere around 1868 and 1894. Before 1848, Gladstone had been a traditionalist with a solid reformist streak; his two noteworthy interests were unhindered commerce and the restoration of London's whores. “By the 1860s he had gone separate ways with the traditionalists and turn into a main liberal, pushing for expansion of the establishment, change in the armed force and common administration, and a decrease in the size and cost of government.” He would later bolster Irish home govern and criticize those he saw as narrow minded despots, including the pope, the Ottoman sultan, and his most
