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The Middle Ages are making a political comeback
What are the odds of survival when political leaders with nuclear weapons ‘go mediaeval’?
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US President Donald Trump (left) speaks with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit on June 25.
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Adrian Wooldridge
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In one of the most memorable scenes in Pulp Fiction, a film replete with memorable scenes, a Los Angeles gangster, Marsellus Wallace, turns the tables on a man who has kidnapped and abused him. He’s going to get a couple of friends to go to work on his assailant “with a pair of pliers and a blow torch”, he says, and ensure that he spends “the rest of his short life in agonising pain”. In short, he’s going to “get mediaeval” on him.
There has been an awful lot of “getting mediaeval” in the world recently. The “12-day war” between Israel and Iran
