How the west won – but isn’t winning any more
When Mahatma Gandhi was once asked by a reporter what he thought of western civilisation, he famously replied - with delicate irony - that he thought it would be a good idea. Kenneth Clarke had no sense of irony when, in 1969, he made his famous tele
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By Niall Ferguson
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When Mahatma Gandhi was once asked by a reporter what he thought of western civilisation, he famously replied - with delicate irony - that he thought it would be a good idea. Kenneth Clarke had no sense of irony when, in 1969, he made his famous television series entitled Civilisation, in which he propounded the ...
