history repeating

George Bernard Shaw "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."
This morning's news has given me a deep sense of deja vu.  

• We're in a recession; just like the 1980s
• 10 years to the day and the hour another British PM stood on his hind-legs to announce military action 'war' in response to UN resolution.
• Japanese nuclear power stations still unsafe (3-mile island USA)

BBC radio 4 'From our own Correspondent'