Lessons from the past

War,' said Clemenceau, the French prime minister who led his nation to victory in World War I, 'is much too serious a matter to be left to soldiers.' In much the same spirit, his British......

Finance capital: The new dominant minority

In his monumental A Study of History, Arnold Toynbee, the great British historian, finds some common elements in the rise and fall of civilisations. These are: There is a creative minority which......