Empires, Essentially, Create Order. In Their Absence,

The British Press Has An Insatiable Appetite For Making Public Things That Should Be Private. It's A Prurience That I've Never Understood.

I Would Say I'm A 19th-century Liberal, Possibly Even An 18th-century One.

In The Old Days It Would Have Been A Relatively Simple Matter To Have Checked Hitler's Territorial Ambitions. All You'd Have Needed Would Have Been The 1914 Combination Of Britain, France And Russia. Indeed, If Such An Alliance Had Acted Decisively To Defend Czechoslovakia In 1938, Hitler Might Even Have Been Overthrown By His Own Military. But It Was Not To Be.

The Rise Of The West Is, Quite Simply, The Pre-eminent Historical Phenomenon Of The Second Half Of The Second Millennium After Christ.

In Stalin's Russia Racial Persecution Was Often Disguised As Class Warfare. More Than 1.5 Million Members Of Ethnic Minorities Died As A Result Of Forced Resettlement.