Can myths explain Brexit? A discussion with Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis about her recently published book 'Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice - Three meanings of Brexit', in Saint John's College, Wednesday, second week, 7-8.15pm. Free refreshments provided. Open to all.

Guerrilla warfare has earned a reputation of near invincibility, driving great powers out of their former colonial empires during the twentieth century and frustrating military interventions during the twenty-first century, even where the asymmetry in regular force capability is the starkest. Why have mighty powers that proved capable of crushing the strongest of opponents failed to defeat the humblest of military rivals in some of the world’s poorest and weakest regions? How do the weak defeat the strong?