The title is based on Edward Gibbon’sThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in six volumes beginning in 1776. Decline and Fall was the first modern book on Roman history. It was relatively objective and drawn from primary sources. And it recounted the fall of...
The epicentre of irrational behaviour across global markets has moved to the fossil fuel complex of oil, gas and coal. This is where investors have been throwing the most good money after bad. The cumulative blitz on exploration and production over the past six years has been $5.4 trillion, ...
ironically to a large extent created by European and Western inventions, puts severe pressure on our nations in ways which were unthinkable a few generations ago. When the Christian Gospels were written down at the end of the first century AD, the population of the Roman Empire was maybe...
The Victorians, in turn, looked back to a time before the Industrial Revolution. Even in Roman times, people moaned about changing family values (and today we still speak of the “decline and fall” of the Empire, despite historians pointing out that’s not really how it happened). As a...