If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.

To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.

From the earliest days, the Rothschilds appreciated the importance of proximity to politicians, the men who determined not only the extent of budget deficits but also the domestic and foreign policies.

It’s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average Chinese. Now it’s just five times, and soon it will be 2.5 times.

When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers.

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.