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Emmanuel Macron’s France, like the French Bourbons, have forgotten nothing and learnt nothing from history.

The backlash over the $19.4 reported as professional legal fee in Seplat Energy's half-year result presents us as a people in the cast of the French Bourbons of whom the French statesman and foremost diplomat, Charles-Maurice de Telleyrand-Périgord, 1st Prince of Benevento, said they learnt nothing and forgot nothing. We not only repeat the same mistake, but also fail to heed warnings.

Incest, or sexual relationships between biologically close family members, is an idea that may make your skin crawl. But it has often been practiced

Traditional British food, it seems, is the latest battleground in the culture wars. Parkin, a delicious if rather high calorie Yorkshire cake, is to be investigated by Leeds City Council for possible links to slavery and colonialism. This traditional delicacy — if that’s the right word for parkin — dates back to the 18th century, and the problem is it’s made with ginger, treacle and sugar.  These products, so it has been suggested, were only made available to the county’s bakers as a...

Mises on Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Right of Self-Determination For Mises, liberalism first emerged and expressed itself in the nineteenth century as a political movement in the form of “peaceful nationalism.” Its two fundamental principles were freedom or, more concretely, “the right of self-determination of peoples” and national unity or the “nationality principle.” The two principles were indissolubly linked. The primary goal of the liberal nationalist movements (Italian, ...

England was experiencing a time of social disruption, with people moving from the countryside to the cities in search of employment.  The conditions in these urban areas, however, were no better and many viewed working on a sailing ship as a way out of their predicament.  Nevertheless, ordinary sailors had to work hard, were subject to strict discipline, and earned only modest wages. Piracy, on the other hand, provided these sailors an opportunity to amass their fortunes quickly, and also the...