Hugh Barnes
Articles by hugh barnes
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Society
Banning Khat
- 26 June 2008
- 1 comment
An overdue reform of drugs policy or another draconian attack on our civil liberties? Hugh Barnes reflects on the Tory proposal
Books
Dog beneath the skin
- 28 February 2008
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
Victor Pelevin. Translated by Andrew Bromfield Faber & Faber, 333pp, £12.99
Books
The war the west forgot
- 25 October 2007
One Soldier's War in Chechnya
Arkady Babchenko Portobello Books, 405pp, £16.99
Books
Red in tooth and claw
- 13 September 2007
The President's Last Love
Andrey Kurkov Harvill Secker, 400pp, £12.99
Books
More than a mouthful
- 02 August 2007
The Khat Controversy: Stimulating the Debate on Drugs
David Anderson, Susan Beckerleg, Degol Hailu and Axel Klein Berg, 256pp, £55
Books
Family fortunes
- 19 July 2007
- 1 comment
Notes from an Exhibition
Patrick Gale Fourth Estate, 384pp, £14.99
ISBN 0007254652
Politics
Kazakhstan's feuding first family
- 05 July 2007
When the president of an oil-rich former Soviet republic where the ruling family runs everything falls out with his son-in-law it can have huge repercussions.
Books
For the love of Lenin
- 14 May 2007
Young Stalin
Simon Sebag Montefiore Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 397pp, £25
ISBN 0297850687
Middle East
A vision of the future
- 30 April 2007
China's multimillion-dollar port scheme in Baluchistan gives it a foothold in the Middle East that is making India and Iran nervous. If a naval base follows, the US may well begin to share their concern.
Politics
NS Special Report - Only spies can stop the chaos
- 08 May 2006
Pakistan's intelligence service used to sponsor the Islamists. Now it is trying to prevent them taking over the country.
