Michael Lavalette reviews a documentary on the Suez crisis, whose 70th anniversary is this year, which demonstrated Britain’s decline as a world power when its intervention ended in humiliating defeat ...
However tempting it may be, the comparison “Suez moment,” which is seen as the historical juncture that confirmed the decline of the British Empire, and the United States’ battle to reopen the Strait ...
Moviefone: Suez: 24 Hours That Broke the British Empire - Miniseries (2026)
British troops are in Egypt supposedly on a peace-keeping mission, to protect the Suez Canal. But all is not as it seems. Nobody knows it, but the next 24 hours will change Britain for ever and ...
The dramatic inside story of 6 November 1956, the final day of the Suez Crisis. A day that changed Britain forever. Exactly as it happened - hour by hour, minute by minute.
Middle East Eye: Suez was the death knell for the British empire. Hormuz may do the same for the US
As confrontation with Iran escalates, Washington risks repeating the 1956 Suez crisis, which hastened the end of sterling as a global reserve currency and forced imperial retreat Cargo ships in the ...
Suez was the death knell for the British empire. Hormuz may do the same for the US
Atlas was a Greek Titan famed for his prodigious strength and endurance, condemned to shoulder the heavens for eternity. He once passed the burden of holding up the world to the hero Hercules, but was tricked into taking it back.
Sisyphus was a Greek king famous for his cunning. He was so clever, in fact, that he managed to cheat Death himself and live a longer life than the gods had intended. But this later backfired: his actions angered the gods, and when he finally did die, he was forced to suffer eternal punishment in Tartarus.