Nobody could say it has been a slow news year - but is there
anything that unites the disparate protests, scandals, meltdowns
and disasters of 2011? Nick Spencer detects an
unfashionable common thread.

Historians looking back over the early years of the new
millennium may well identify 2011 as one of those iconic years in
which a whole ...
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