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  • Ljubljana

    Ljubljana is one of Europe's coolest capital cities, famed for its castle, beautiful bridges, vibran

  • Bombing Civilians – WWII’s ‘moral crimes’. A.C. Grayling in interview.

    The mortality figures presented by A.C. Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London, in the appendix of his recent book Amongst the Dead Cities are shocking. Shocking because of thei

  • Michael Longley: Entwining Strands of Love, Nature, War & Death.

    “Longley hasn’t advertised himself as a Muse-poet, but that is what he is, a love poet, and a nature poet, a celebrant of the female principle; and like Graves he is also a war poet, of the tw
  • Tim Winton Interview

    “You kill them, if pressed” – Tim Winton

    Trying to contact Tim Winton appears to be no easy matter. A couple of false starts, and a period of waiting is required before Three Monkeys finally manages to get in touch with the Australian author

  • Understanding Climate Change – or Why I should Fly Less

    “You never enjoy the world aright till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars” [Thomas Traherne (1637-75)] On a summer'

  • Samuel Butler, or Sociobiology for Grown-Ups

    “It were unwise to be sanguine and unphilosophical to despair” – John Playfair, 1814. In an essay of 1888, with the novels on which his reputation rests both completed, Samuel Butler

  • Pointless Party Politics

    A coalition government has been formed in Poland. Well, not really. At the last moment someone pulled out so the coalition is still in a minority. It’s just that now it has lost every last shred

  • A Parable

    A tale is told which is meant to illustrate the difference between the US mindset and the Russian and explain why the US won the cold war. When an American peasant sees his neighbour build a large and

  • Chavez Again

    Chavez is an object lesson in the way the mainstream media works. Consider this article in the Sunday Times by Sarah Baxter. Firstly, there’s the title, with its reference to Evelyn Waugh’

  • Disco Castro

    Saturday’s Gazeta Wyborcza carries a report by Maciej Stasinski about Teodoro Petkoff, the 74-year-old challenger to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. This newspaper, please note, is regarded with deep
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