Parliament Squared by Derek Wyatt
In the 20th century, we failed to understand it until 1945. By which time we had had two different world wars within twenty years. After 1919, we looked backwards; after 1945 we began an NHS, a national transport system and much else.
Elsewhere, a United Nations was born (in London in 1942). Other institutions followed - the World Bank, the IMF, UNESCO, the WTO, the WHO and more. Today, they seem tired and ought to be put out to grass. But no...