Rothschild Boulevard, a pleasant, leafy thoroughfare that meanders through Tel Aviv, with offices and commodious flats on either side, has oddly become a colourful encampment, seething with talk of people-power and social revolution.

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Under the shelter of strong government, humankind can enjoy "commodious living" - Hobbes' term for a civilised mode of life in which we can live and work together without fear.

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London taxis are designed to be commodious to an English gentleman's top hat in the back seat and a trans-Atlantic steamship chest in the trunk.

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