Why are some things remembered and others forgotten? That is the theme I want to pursue about the Second World War.
Poland is the natural bridge between East and West.
One might have thought that 70 years was time enough to work out what really happened in 1939. It isn't the case. Misunderstandings and misinformation abound.
In the 21st century, there will probably be a reflex against the disintegration of traditional European culture. What started as a reaction will come full circle, and there will be a return to the roots.
Northern Ireland must, in future, be absorbed into the Irish republic. Wales and Scotland must advance from devolution to full independent status. The four nations of these islands must commit themselves absolutely to the project of a United Europe.
Why does a state last a thousand years? Why not 999? Why not a thousand and one? What are the events that finally bring the whole thing down? That is what I am asking.
Law and Justice are the most vindictive gang in Europe.
The 'politics of memory' policy appears to work largely by insinuation.
It's our vanity that makes us think that what forms part of our world today must be stable and secure.
The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.
A bad historian is even more dangerous than dead documentary wood.
Nearly all interested parties think I write too shortly on the subjects that interest them most.
The most noticeable thing about the Soviet collapse was that it followed a natural course.
One of the few things that can be said for certain about Europe's prehistoric peoples is that they all came from somewhere else.
None of Europe's modern nations are genuinely native.
I happen to belong to that group opinion which holds the break-up of the United Kingdom to be imminent.
The United Kingdom is not, and never has been, a nation state.
