New Cold War? World War III?

How history can help us make sense of our Age of Confusion

May 05, 2024

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J M W Turner ‘The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire’. (Photographed during a recent visit to Tate Britain.)

In history, as in romance, beginnings matter

In these times of planetary polycrisis, we try to get our bearings by looking to the past. Are we perhaps in The New Cold War, as Robin Niblett, the fo…

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