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"Sitting on a nest like that only made sense if it had feathers" to gently insulate its young, says Sues.

For Suez was not the only trauma to have shaped British foreign-policy thinking since the war.

This is why Italy made it its colony just a year after the opening of the canal in 1869 and why the British conquered it in 1941.

The route from England to India via the Suez Canal is often called the life line of the British Empire.

In 1956 the two colluded with Israel to attack Egypt and retake the Suez Canal, which had been nationalised by Gamal Abdel Nasser.

The waters off the Somali coast, moreover, have become one of the prime zones of piracy at sea, disrupting shipping through the Suez Canal.

ois Pinault, a French financier, three weeks to make an offer for Suez or to hold off for another six months.

The ruling touched off two days of rioting in Suez, with hundreds of people torching police cars and trying to storm government buildings.

It was an illusion, which should have been dispelled early on by the fiasco of the 1956 Suez crisis.