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Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and...
Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide...
Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001 and the US...
The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East from Britain's...
The world dominion of western thought forms of organisation technology and...
In modern society where most people live in cities and where both needs and...
Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science -...
Whatever else it was Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal...
We read too much Shakespeare at school and view our parliamentary politics...
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain...
Were there peace and justice in the Middle East the Arabs would no more need...
To make a love story you need a couple of young people but to reflect on...
To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her...
Because bankers measure their self-worth in money and pay themselves a lot...
For all their current prestige Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are...
Cause and effect the riddle of all history is a particular devil in...
Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits the...
One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of...
If good history is dispassionate history it must naturally wait until the...
The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a...
The truth is of course that history is not completed in modern commerce any...
For 50 years nuclear power stations have produced three products which only...
In rising financial markets the world is forever new. The bull or optimist...
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource and human beings are...
Even before he came to power in 1997 Gordon Brown promised to change the...
Up until the Depression recession had a moral character: it was supposed to...
Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the...
Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial...
There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for...
Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges...
