A novelist reflects on how the 1956 Suez Crisis ended Britain's status as a great power and how the Soviet crushing of Hungary still resonates, with parallels drawn to current Middle East instability and Russia's war in Ukraine.

Stephen Glover, author of the novel Levin's War, marks the 70th anniversary of the October-November 1956 Suez Crisis and Hungarian Revolution, drawing parallels between Anthony Eden's failed invasion of Egypt, the Soviet crushing of Imre Nagy's Budapest uprising, and today's fuel crisis, Trump's strike on Iran and Putin's war in Ukraine.