In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams o….

The dividing line between wish and need was never clear..

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation..

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words,….

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age..

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long s….

Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Eu….

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe a….

Almost all novels are improved by cutting from the top. On their first pages, authors parade those favourite effects which disgust the impartial read….

What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab inter….

Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be phys….

When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset re….

At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it for their own reward and then lock th….

My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision….

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassio….

For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste….

The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by….