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By Robert Skidelsky - May 24,2014
Earlier last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that gas giant Gazprom would start demanding payment a month in advance for the supplies that it sells to Ukraine.
The British newspaper The Observer published, in response, a striking cartoon showing Putin sitting o
By Robert Skidelsky - Feb 23,2014
At the start of the Industrial Revolution, textile workers in the Midlands and the North of England, mainly weavers, staged a spontaneous revolt, smashing machinery and burning factories.
Their complaint was that the newfangled machines were robbing them of their wages and jobs.