Political

During World War I prices in Germany had doubled, but the real trouble started afterwards.

The fiasco of the Afghan presidential election of 2009 is an object lesson in the

When British Prime Minister Tony Blair agreed to support America’s invasion of Iraq he was

Guantanamo Bay on the southern tip of Cuba has been an American naval base ever

As the 1992 general election approached, Britain was sliding into recession. The electorate were more

The background to what became known as the Iran-Contra affair of the mid 1980s lay

The so-called ‘winter of discontent’ of 1978-1979 which brought down Jim Callaghan’s Labour government marked

The 1960s was a decade in which Britain was busy divesting itself of its colonies

In 1967, when MP for North Devon Jeremy Thorpe became leader, the Liberal Party was

The events which led to the resignation, on August 9 1974, of President Richard Nixon

If there’s one thing Americans like nearly as much as a good conspiracy theory, it’s

The death of Senator Edward Kennedy in August 2009 marked the end of an era

The central European country of Czechoslovakia had fallen under the Soviet sphere of influence after

Harold Macmillan, the Conservative prime minister of the day, may have declared that Britain had

The sun was already setting on Britain’s empire and its status as a major player

The full story of the 1953 coup d’etat in Iran has yet to be told

One of the world’s most enduring and disastrous conflicts is that between Israel (consistently supported

If ever there was a blot on the USA’s political escutcheon, it was paranoid anti-communist