Robert Cottrell | 21 November 2009

1 “To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness”. Liddell Hart at his best channels Sun Tzu, says Younghusband in his critique of Liddell Hart's "Strategy"

2 Tony Perrottet navigates Paris with a 200-year-old restaurant guide

3 How two garden gnomes came to be appointed as president and foreign minister of the European Union. London Times has the tick-tock