My colleagues are departing for North Africa. And I am sitting here left behind in central London wishing I was going with them. History is being made and I want to see it up close.

But what kind of history? Commentators vie with each other for the most appropriate comparison.

– “Is it like 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall?”

– “No, this is the new 1968 and The Prague Spring?”

– “No it isn’t, this is just like 1848 and the spate of European revolutions that swept the continent.” [Read more…]