A young boy in a blue shirt is sitting next to me on the ground as I interview Smith Thomas, a former tribal warlord in the remote mountains of Papua New Guinea. I’d barely noticed the child until Mr ...

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In the Middle East, hardly any of today’s national entities are older than a century or so; most of them were for thousands of years mere provinces within a succession of empires, from the Bronze Age ...