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France: a divided nation goes to the polls

One of the central paradoxes of life in France is that for all the French preen themselves as the most civilised nation on Earth, they are also quickly prone to collapse into self-lacerating fits of…
PUBLISHED: April 14, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3432 words)

The fall of the Roman empire and the rise of Islam

Whenever modern civilisations contemplate their own mortality, there is one ghost that will invariably rise up from its grave to haunt their imaginings. In February 1776, a few months after the…
PUBLISHED: March 30, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3299 words)
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