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The Fix: A death in Malta
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Tales from the magic circle
Book review: Beauty is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe by Joachim C. Häberlen (Allen Lane, 2023)
By chance, the legendary Italian intellectual…
The Fix: Simple history is never simplistic
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Practising politics in a moral wilderness
Book review: Politics on the Edge: A Memoir from Within, by Rory Stewart (Jonathan Cape, 2023)
To explain away their failures, errors and flaws, many politicians have consoled…
The Fix: Escape banality, shun labels
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The Fix: An evolving Saudi Arabia
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A Marshall Plan for Ukraine?
The war must yet be won, however both German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have called for a “Marshall Plan” style commitment to…
War crimes: The trial of a fallen French war hero and lessons for today
Book review: France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain, by Julian Jackson (Allen Lane 2023)
How might Vladimir Putin ever be tried for war crimes in Ukraine? How would a jury…
Imagining Trump’s second term
Review: Canada Alone by Kim Richard Nossal (Dundurn, 2023), and Trump’s Australia by Bruce Wolpe (Allen and Unwin, 2023)
After 9/11, French newspaper Le Monde turned over its…
The decline of Europe: “Rage, rage, against the dying of the light”
Book Review: Homelands: A Personal History of Europe by Timothy Garton Ash (Bodley Head, 2023)
A decade or so ago, Timothy Garton Ash might well have envisaged a memoir-cum…