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The continent turned upside down. Bosnia, Kosovo, the fall of communism - this has been Europe's most turbulent decade since the forties. And it has shown up the EU's aim of political integration as sheer hubris
19 July 1999

History of the Present: Essays, Sketches and Despatches from Europe in the 1990s

Timothy Garton A

Ideas
The NS Essay - Send forth the best ye breed
05 July 1999

Geoffrey Wheatcroft explains why the left wants the white man's burden again

Ideas
The NS Essay - How generals help the pacifists
10 May 1999

History shows that battlefield disasters rather than peace rallies or pamphlets give wars bad reputa

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Look right, look left, look right again. Quoted by Major and Blair, a hero of Republican hawks in America, an anti-Stalinist, a "Tory Socialist" - Orwell's politics remain endlessly open to interpretation. Why?
02 April 1999

Orwell's Politics

John Newsinger Macmillan, 224pp, £42.50

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From the margins to the centre. The English mistrust of ideas has allowed the influence of French thinkers to dominate academe and cultural journalism. Two new books reopen the old ideological wounds
05 February 1999

The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century

Tony Judt Ch

Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - The rise of the philistines
04 December 1998

Geoffrey Wheatcroft laments the paucity of politicians who can quote Homer

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Children's books - Sniffing out the past
04 December 1998

History

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The darkness at noon for Arthur Koestler was in his heart. Yet his early work, inspired by his disillusionment with communism, will survive the memory of his unlovable personality
20 November 1998

Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind

David Cesarani Heinemann, 646pp, £25

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