Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Articles by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
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UK Politics
Ministry of the living dead
- 15 October 2009
In elections over the past century, Labour could with some justice cry “We were cheated!” or “We were betrayed!”. But the party has run out of excuses. This time, it is dying by its own hands
Books
Never criticise the family
- 02 October 2008
- 55 comments
Zionism is one of the most contentious ideas, freighted with emotion by both partisans and detractors. Now some Jews are speaking out, breaking a long self-censorship
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Still strung out
- 24 July 2008
- 5 comments
Doping scandals continue to tarnish the glory of cycling's top event - the Tour de France. A book by a disillusioned fan examines the sport's hard-to-kick drug habit
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Decline and fall
- 10 October 2005
Our Culture, What's Left of It: the mandarins and the masses Theodore Dalrymple Ivan R Dee, 356pp, £18.99 ISBN 1566636434
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A state like no other. Israel, once seen as a refuge, has become one of the few places where Jews are attacked simply for being Jews. Geoffrey Wheatcroft on the troubled history of a homeland
- 25 April 2005
Jacob's Gift: a journey into the heart of belonging Jonathan Freedland Hamish Hamilton, 395pp, £16.99 ISBN 0241142431 The Question of Zion Jacqueline Rose Princeton University Press, 208pp, £12.95 The Return of Anti-Semitism Gabriel Schoenfeld Politico's, 186pp, £14.99
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A man of the century. Martin Amis wrote about him with devotion; to Gore Vidal, he was the best critic of "the living novel". Geoffrey Wheatcroft on one of literature's finest all-rounders
- 18 October 2004
V S Pritchett: a working life Jeremy Treglown Chatto & Windus, 308pp, £25 ISBN 070117322X
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The sum of his books. Edward Said denounced V S Naipaul as a "native informer", and even his warmest admirers have struggled to defend his recent inflammatory utterances. But surely no one can deny that he is one of the world's greatest writers, argues Geoffrey wheatcroft
- 02 February 2004
Literary Occasions: essays by V S Naipaul Introduced and edited by Pankaj Mishra Picador, 204pp, £16.99 ISBN 0330420224
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The supreme German. Geoffrey Wheatcroft on Albert Speer, a man without moral conviction or ideology, who should have hanged at Nuremberg
- 05 November 2001
Speer: the final verdict Joachim Fest, translated by Ewald Osers Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 427pp, £20 ISBN 0297646168
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Who killed Dr Glock? "Archaeology is not a science, it is a vendetta." Geoffrey Wheatcroft on the assassination of an American who became caught up in the land disputes of the Middle East
- 06 August 2001
Palestine Twilight: the murder of Dr Albert Glock and the archaeology of the Holy Land Edward Fox HarperCollins, 283pp, £19.99 ISBN 0002556073
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - The press and the swinish multitude
- 11 December 2000
Can those who look down on the popular papers really call themselves the workers' friends?
