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Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic philosopher noted ‘No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man’. Similarly, every Prime Minister will transform Britain bu...

The term ‘superpower’ originated in 1943 with a series of lectures about the potential shape of a new post-war world order by Duch-American geostrategist, Nicholas Spykman. Then in 1944, William Fox...

In March 1860, the English philosopher John Stuart Mill stood up in the House of Commons and lambasted the Government, calling them ‘dys-topians’ with their ‘too bad’ vision for Ireland’s future (Mill, 20...

In 1962, Dean Acheson the United States Secretary of State at West Point asserted that ‘Britain has lost an empire, and has not yet found a role’. However, this cannot be taken at face value when evaluati...