http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/david_hare en http://www.newstatesman.com/arts-and-culture/2007/12/ted-hughes-die-understood http://www.newstatesman.com/arts-and-culture/2007/12/ted-hughes-die-understood Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMT David Hare The letters of Ted Hughes led David Hare to reflect on the uneasy question: do you have to die to be understood?

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2007/05/tony-blair-gifted-stupider http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2007/05/tony-blair-gifted-stupider Mon, 07 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT David Hare Why did a gifted prime minister embark on a course which people far stupider had consistently warned him could not work? David Hare on a tragic paradox

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200612180001 http://www.newstatesman.com/200612180001 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:00:00 GMT David Hare Bill Clinton looks just as he does on TV, except his thighs are thicker. He and Hillary, to their surprise, were booed in the interval, whether for lateness or previous offences, goodness knows

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