Imperial Sunset on the Rocks Please
- August 18, 2021
- by
- Matt
Some empires take a long time to die. The Roman Empire was already in decline centuries before the final collapse of the Western Empire in c.376-476. By the end of the seventeenth century the weaknesses of the Spanish/Hapsburg Empire that spanned Europe and Latin America from the late fifteenth century onwards were already apparent, but...
Cameron’s awfully big Somali adventure
- February 24, 2012
- by
- Matt
Yesterday’s International Conference on Somalia was billed by the UK government as a turning point in the history of one of the most impoverished and war-torn nations on earth. In his opening address to the conference David Cameron explained the purpose of the conference in the following terms:
‘In a country where there is...
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