Money and war! (or thank god for Radio 4)

I know that Radio 4 can sometimes come across as very middle-class, twee and smug but it also one of the only remaining places left were intelligent conversation can still be found.

Heard an interesting piece this morning about the 'Malayan Emergency', a guerrilla war fought between Commonwealth armed forces and the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA), the military arm of the Malayan Communist Party, from 1948 to 1960. I t is widely believed that the reason it was called an 'emergency' and not a 'war', which it clearly was, was that the rubber plantations and tin mining industries had pushed for the use of the term "emergency" since their losses would not have been covered by Lloyd's insurers if it had been termed a war.
 
Capitalism in all its glory!