John Gray
Articles by john gray
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UK Politics
Maggie's gift to Gordon
- 20 September 2007
- 4 comments
David Cameron tried to break with the Tory past by modelling himself on Tony Blair. But with Margaret Thatcher back at No 10, his new clothes are looking sadly dated
UK Politics
Maggie's boy
- 07 May 2007
- 1 comment
"You were the future, once," David Cameron famously taunted Tony Blair - but, in our final assessment, John Gray argues that new Labour failed to extricate itself from the Thatcher past
Books
Lines of beauty
- 23 April 2007
At the Same Time
Susan Sontag Hamish Hamilton, 256pp, £18.99
ISBN 0241143713
Books
Freedom fighter
- 12 March 2007
- 4 comments
Isaiah Berlin believed that humans make their own destiny. But his encounter with Adam von Trott, Hitler's would-be assassin, suggests otherwise.
Ideas
Clear and present danger
- 18 September 2006
Heat: how to stop the planet burning
George Monbiot Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 304pp, £17.99
ISBN 0713999233
It may be too late to do anything about global warming. So, rather than pretending it can be stopped, shouldn't we concentrate on coping with the disruption?
Ideas
The ideas corner: The savage within
- 21 August 2006
We are not as far removed from barbarism as we like to think, warns John Gray
Ideas
Battle of the books
- 31 July 2006
What works can be said to have altered history?
A few by scientists and philosophers, perhaps, but none so much as the central texts of the world religions
Politics
History: flux or narrative?
- 17 July 2006
Hegel's notion of progress is oddly relevant to today's politics, finds John Gray
Ideas
Beyond good and evil
- 19 June 2006
The neo-cons' favourite philosophy had a distinctly seamy side, finds John Gray
