News about Niall Ferguson
NIALL FERGUSON: The fear of Putin and intimidation of Iran has made World War III more threatening, not less likely. We have perhaps 12 months to grasp the big lesson of history: If you do not prepare for war you shall not have peace
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February 3, 2024
We no longer have an empire; only a nation state - the United Kingdom - has one. But nation states must have insurance if they want to prevent the kind of strategic disaster that struck Britain in early 1942, when Singapore surrendered to Japan and multiple British colonies around the world, not to mention the British Isles themselves.
As foreign buyers seek the national treasure, top historian Niall Ferguson responds to calls to save Sir Winston Churchill's funeral barge
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December 17, 2023
As foreign buyers look to save the national treasure, an eminent historian has called for the barge that bore Sir Winston Churchill's coffin along the Thames to be saved. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby are among those who have pleaded with a British buyer to come forward and save the Havengore, according to Niall Ferguson, a Mail contributor. Chris Ryland, 75, bought the 85ft vessel for £780,000 in 2006 but put it up for auction 18 months later, bringing the price down to £800,000. There are fears that the barge will be bought by an international businessman and turned into a party ship. The Havengore carried Sir Winston's body after a state funeral in 1965, when London's dockers lowered their cranes in honor.