It seemed to weigh heavily on him, this bespectacled middle-aged man opposite me. Alternately hunching his shoulders when lapsing into deep thought, and then rising up again when making a vital point, he would continue to talk, at times lowering his voice to a whisper, conscious not to allow his voice to reach the surrounds [...]
Cross late in the afternoon from Pakistan into India through the Wagah border point, complete immigration and customs formalities, walk a further couple of hundred metres down the road and you’ll find crowds of people, predominantly Indians, assembled outside a large closed gate. They are not touts awaiting tourists leaving Pakistan; you’ll find them a [...]
Someone once told me that he was all for free trade but couldn’t understand why free trade agreements needed thousands of pages. The simple answer is that this is not free trade. All that is required for free trade are willing buyers and sellers agreeing voluntarily to deal peacefully with each other, the eradication of [...]
(Oxford University Press – 252 pages)
Reviewer – Luke Brown
Having seized power of Russia in the 1917 Revolution and being subsequently disappointed that it didn’t have a snowballing effect on Europe, the murderous, tyrannical, communist dictator Lenin decided that it was through the East that he could hope to conquer the West. As Britain was considered [...]
(Oxford University Press – 277 pages)
Reviewer – Luke Brown
Posted: 29 September, 2003
During the 19th century the Great Game (see Peter Hopkirk’s excellent book by [...]
(Oxford University Press – 562 pages)
Reviewer – Luke Brown
Posted: 15 September, 2003
Although the phrase “The Great Game” was immortalised [...]
(Crown Publishers – 284 pages)
Reviewer – Luke Brown
The momentous failure of intelligence agencies, in particular the CIA, to prevent the [...]
