People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

History provides no precise guidelines.

People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance.

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.