A Historian Is Battling All The Time

In The Old Days It Would Have Been A Relatively Simple Matter To Have Checked Hitler's Territorial Ambitions. All You'd Have Needed Would Have Been The 1914 Combination Of Britain, France And Russia. Indeed, If Such An Alliance Had Acted Decisively To Defend Czechoslovakia In 1938, Hitler Might Even Have Been Overthrown By His Own Military. But It Was Not To Be.

The Law Of Unintended Consequences Is The Only Real Law Of History.

The Ascent Of Money Has Been Essential To The Ascent Of Man.

My Arguments For Liberal Empire Or Whatever You Want To Call It - Hegemony, Primacy, You Name It - Are Really Activated By A Sense That The Alternatives Involve More Violence, More Repression, More Hardship.

The British Press Has An Insatiable Appetite For Making Public Things That Should Be Private. It's A Prurience That I've Never Understood.