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“Globalisation is not remotely new; it has been occurring, at differing rates and with differing degrees of scale, for centuries.”

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Britain, like other European states, is not and never will again be in the top-world-power league, so its male leaders can afford to play…

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Hillary Clinton is tough, clever, and formidably well briefed, and has been politically ambitious all her adult life.

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In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

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Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental Europe and…

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Virtually every war fought since the Act of Union had gone badly at some stage, but before 1783 none had ended in defeat. Nor…

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Traditionally, royal females who have not had the luck to become queens regnant have been granted very limited roles. They have been expected to…

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Never fly to the U.S. the day before Thanksgiving or the weekend after because every airport is guaranteed to be crammed to bursting with…

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Men and women do not live by bread alone. They also need sustaining ideas.

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High-level political wives are by no means new. In the 18th and 19th centuries, when patricians dominated British political life, it was common for…

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Governments should encourage and facilitate the teaching of history, but one does not want them to be able to dictate, for political or partisan…

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Although Britain has, since 1653, had nothing approaching a single, codified constitution, it did for a very long time possess a broad cult of…

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Even at its most powerful, Britain always needed alliances with other European states. There would almost certainly have been no British victory at Waterloo,…

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