A brief survey of recent British history as reflected in the changing title of my putative next Thucydides book…
2015: Thucydides and Modern Political Thought
2016: The Human Thing: Thucydides on Politics and its Failings
2017: Faction, Populism and the Politics of Truth; Hope, Danger’s Comforter
2018: It’s the Melian Dialogue, Stupid (And You’re the Melians)
2019: History Repeating: the Self-Inflicted Death of Democracy; The Human Thing: Why People Make Idiotic Decisions; A Possession for All Time (If Anyone Bothered to Pay Attention)
2020: Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn You
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