Politics
Votes for sugar
Egypt’s President – once General, now Field Marshal, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi – has earned another title: Mr 97 per cent. In an election held at the end of March, Sisi...
Politics
Fences built of bones
The response was as brutal as it was shocking. When, on August 25, 2017, a militant Rohingya Muslim group called the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army attacked a police base in...
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MYANMAR’S ENEMY WITHIN
Politics
Freedom to suppress
Everyone lies to you in Thailand”, a former Bangkok resident told me at a recent gathering of Asia correspondents. When you ask a local when the next bus arrives, for...
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BLOOD AND SILK
Politics
Not exactly fair play
It’s the screams I remember the most”. Joanne Bland was recalling the incidents of the “Bloody Sunday” that took place in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. The brutal crackdown the local...
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TEAR GAS
Politics
Spooks and criminals
With Russian death squads apparently roaming the streets of Britain and relations between London and Moscow at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War, these two books...
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THE VORY
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ORDERS TO KILL
Politics
Un-liberty
For liberals the recent transformation of universities into institutions devoted to the eradication of thought crime must seem paradoxical. In the past higher education was avowedly shaped by an ideal...
Politics
Who are the patriots now?
Feelings about the European Union tend to be personal, and in the early years mine were positive. When the UK joined the Common Market in 1972 I was Soviet desk...
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AFTER EUROPE
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HOW TO STOP BREXIT
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WTF
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WHERE WE ARE
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BREXIT AND BRITISH POLITICS
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LA FIN DE L’UNION EUROPÉENNE
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IN DEFENCE OF EUROPE
Politics
Project retro?
In the event of a nuclear attack on Britain in the Cold War, the Women’s Royal Voluntary Service, invaluable during the Blitz, was meant to continue its good work by...
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THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE
Politics
Getting on the news
Be warned: when I become world dictator, there are going to be big changes around here. The Kurds will get their own state. My son’s primary school will receive proper...
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STUDENT REVOLT
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HOW TO RESIST
Politics
Revolution is not a dinner party
John Bew on attempts to understand the relationship between idealists and the powerful
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FROM BENITO MUSSOLINI TO HUGO CHÁVEZ
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LABOUR AND THE GULAG