Losing Your Capital Is Like Losing Your

Losing Your Capital Is Like Losing Your Trousers. It Is A Real Humiliation, And One Not To Be Soon Repeated.

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 Interests Against The World. That, In The End, Is More Important Than What They Wear On Their Head.

The World Dominion Of Western Thought, Forms Of Organisation, Technology And Military Force Is Not God-given, Nor Eternal, Nor Greatly Appreciated By The Rest Of The World.

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 Register (nar), Which Was Immediately Dubbed By The Boomers Of The Uk Treasury "the Modern Domesday Book".

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 Subordination And Begins To Scheme For The Throne He Knows He Merits, Was Promised And Has Earned.