Hugh Barnes

Articles by Hugh Barnes

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Banning Khat

  • 26 June 2008
  • 5 comments

An overdue reform of drugs policy or another draconian attack on our civil liberties? Hugh Barnes reflects on the Tory proposal

Dog beneath the skin

  • 28 February 2008

The Sacred Book of the Werewolf Victor Pelevin. Translated by Andrew Bromfield Faber & Faber, 333pp, £12.99

The war the west forgot

  • 25 October 2007

One Soldier's War in Chechnya Arkady Babchenko Portobello Books, 405pp, £16.99

Red in tooth and claw

  • 13 September 2007

The President's Last Love Andrey Kurkov Harvill Secker, 400pp, £12.99

More than a mouthful

  • 02 August 2007
  • 1 comment

The Khat Controversy: Stimulating the Debate on Drugs David Anderson, Susan Beckerleg, Degol Hailu and Axel Klein Berg, 256pp, £55

Family fortunes

  • 19 July 2007
  • 1 comment

Notes from an Exhibition Patrick Gale Fourth Estate, 384pp, £14.99 ISBN 0007254652

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.

For the love of Lenin

  • 14 May 2007

Young Stalin Simon Sebag Montefiore Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 397pp, £25 ISBN 0297850687

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.

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.

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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