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Serbia's divided society

Serbia's divided society

Ahead of elections in Serbia on Sunday, Eric Gordy explains that the country going to the polls is split between those looking hopefully toward a European future and those looking vengefully back to the recent past

In europe

The French revolution

  • By Paul Johnson
  • 08 May

In May '68, Paul Johnson, the then editor of the New Statesman, extolled Parisian student power in an impassioned article, abridged here, entitled "The new spectre haunting Europe"

Old Spanish practices

  • By Jason Webster
  • 08 May

Imagining Spain: Historical Myth and National Identity
Henry Kamen
Yale University Press, 240pp, £25

Franco's win at Eurovision...

  • By Jonathan Rice
  • 07 May

How La La La pipped Congratulations to first place at the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest. But was General Franco involved in thwarting Cliff Richard?

Scottish squids in

  • By Jax Jacobsen
  • 01 May

Observations on Fishing

Political will is a renewable resource

  • By Mark Lynas
  • 01 May

Germany has 200 times more solar power installed than the UK - and this is not because Germany gets any more sun

From Stalin to saints

  • By Tom Blass
  • 01 May

Tom Blass finds jaunty funeral parlours and newly restored monasteries and mosques in rural Albania

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Power to the people

Power to the people

South Korea has just held its first jury trial,Japan is planning to reinstate juries next year, Russia is experimenting and even China is toying with the idea. And in Britain?

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Killing communism

  • By Mary Dejevsky
  • 01 May 2008

Goodbye to the Reich

  • By William Cook
  • 24 April 2008

Age of empires

  • By Salil Tripathi
  • 24 April 2008

Keeping it real

  • By Steve Waters
  • 17 April 2008

Modern fitba, eh?

  • By Hunter Davies
  • 17 April 2008

Beyond the appellation

  • By Roger Scruton
  • 17 April 2008

What Islam did for Europe

  • By Jason Webster
  • 17 April 2008

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