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Charles Ellingworth
Monday, 15 July 2013
Empire
I was reading a coffee-table book about Delhi - the imperial city created by Lutyens. From where we are now it seems incredible that then - ...
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Tuesday, 2 July 2013
Tom Stoppard
I saw Tom Stoppard at the Chalke Valley History Festival. He is, and has been for many years, my hero. He spoke about the role of truth in a...
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German hegemony - an illusion
Germany is touted as the bright spot in a collapsing continent. It is more of a problem than a solution as Ambrose Evans-Prichard argues bel...
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Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Unintended Consequences
It is now five years into the financial crisis. In those words there is a something of an oxymoron – as a crisis shouldn’t last that long. B...
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Monday, 10 June 2013
Ruins
If an errant Hercules had a contretemps with Salisbury Catheral and partially destroyed it, would we leave it as a ruin? If the next Duke ...
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Friday, 31 May 2013
Is Hell hot - or cold?
"Dr Robert Schambaugh, of the University of Oklahoma School of Chemical Engineering, was known for setting questions such as, “why do a...
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Bond bubble
With bond yields and interest rates at an all time low, investors are chasing yield where they can find it. Panama has recently sold $750m o...
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