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Thucydides Traps

13 March 2026

“... Thucydides is having another moment. Donald Trump’s foreign policy has provoked a rash of allusions to a line from the Melian Dialogue: ‘The strong do what they want, the weak suffer what they must.’ The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, referred to it at Davos in January in his lament for the fading of a rules-based order: ‘This aphorism of Thucydides is presented as inevitable, as the natural logic of international relations reasserting itself ...”

Paulie lops it off

Elisa Segrave, 2 December 1993

The Wives of Bath 
by Susan Swan.
Granta, 237 pp., £8.99, October 1993, 0 14 014081 6Show More
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“... with it, often about penises and the nature of being male and female. Mouse’s father Morley is an overworked doctor who is too busy to pay much attention to her. When her stepmother Sal suggests that Mouse go to an all-girl boarding-school, her father agrees; and no sooner has she got there than Sal writes her a letter: ‘Don’t get your heart ...”

Diary

A.J.P. Taylor: An Unexpected Experience, 6 December 1984

“... 19th and 20th centuries. He wrote outstanding biographies of such Liberal leaders as Asquith, John Morley and Haldane, concluding with A.G. Gardiner, long-time editor of the Daily News. He then gave up political biography and wrote an enormous two-volume work on The Rise and Fall of the Political Press in Britain. It is difficult enough to write the history of ...”

Rising above it

Russell Davies, 2 December 1982

The Noel Coward Diaries 
edited by Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley.
Weidenfeld, 698 pp., £15, September 1982, 0 297 78142 1Show More
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“... and the French sandwich of Arletty and Yvonne Arnaud contains Anthony Armstrong-Jones. The name of Neville Chamberlain seems to set off a nervous chain-reaction of theatricality, for he is noisily succeeded by Gower Champion, Coco Chanel, Carol Channing, ‘Chips’ Channon (by no means out of place), and Charlie Chaplin. All the Coopers are there: Lady ...”

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