Triumph of the Wills
Daniel Brook : Non-Fiction
A new apologia for Anglo-Saxon noblesse oblige needs a reality check.
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In Transports of Horror and Delight
Alexander Cockburn : France
On airports Heathrow and De Gaulle, bicycles and trains.
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Waiting for Gordon
D.D. Guttenplan : Europe
Britain's incoming prime minister inherits a country transformed almost beyond recognition.
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The Polonium Papers
Edward Jay Epstein : Russia
A lack of hard evidence in the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko has stopped neither the wheels of British justice nor the cameras of Hollywood.
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Labour Crowns King Brown
Gary Younge : Tony Blair
The one pledge Gordon Brown can deliver that would make his transition to power meaningful is to withdraw from Iraq immediately.
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Open Letter to Prince Harry
Amir Soltani Sheikoleslami : Iraq War
Be a prince of peace: Don't go to Iraq.
2006
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Blair, Brown, Blah
Tony Blair's sorry record on Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon--and the rise of a new, viable leader of the Conservative Party--could spell doom for Gordon Brown and the Labour Party.
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Londonistan Calling
Gautam Malkani's new novel explores the cross-section of youth culture, heritage and identity in London's polyglot, postcolonial neighborhoods.
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Party of a Different Color
Mark Hertsgaard : Global Warming & Climate Change
"Vote Blue, Go Green" is the new slogan of Britain's Conservative Party, a measure of just how great a concern climate change is becoming to politicians of all stripes.
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Zones of Disengagement
Richard Vinen : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
In Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain, Stefan Collini encapsulates the paradoxes that dominate discussion of the English cultural landscape.
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Typecast as a Terrorist
The detainment of two actors from The Road to Guantánamo reveals a legal apparatus that is no longer able to distinguish between real and invented threats.
2005
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Terror's Greatest Recruitment Tool
Naomi Klein : Racism & Discrimination
Though many blame Britain's excessive tolerance for the recent terrorist attacks, the real problem is not too much multiculturalism but too little.
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After the Bombs
D.D. Guttenplan & Maria Margaronis
Friends in the States seemed to assume that this was London's 9/11--it wasn't.
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Terror Comes to London
The London bombings are another reminder that Bush's invasion of Iraq was a counterproductive response to 9/11.
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London After the Bombing
The attacks seemed designed to maximize fear, not casualties.
2004
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Fears of a World Divided
If most of Europe's people are depressed, some of their leaders are privately relieved.
2002
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Brits and Drugs
Stacey Butterfield : Drug Policy/Drug War
The UK seemed like the one European nation the US could count on as a faithful ally in the war on drugs.
2000
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