Tag: Alcibiades
The Sicilian Expedition: a second Brexit footnote
![The Sicilian Expedition: a second Brexit footnote The Sicilian Expedition: a second Brexit footnote](http://i0.wp.com/gwallter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Sicily-4.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1)
After the 2016 Brexit referendum I suggested that the historian Thucydides, in the fifth century BC, can help us to understand how democracies have the capacity to change their decisions on major policies – and both the capacity and the duty to do so when those decisions are clearly, in retrospect, unwise or disastrous. A […]