John Gray

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The Perfumier and the Stinkhorn

  • 27 April 2011
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The naturalist Richard Mabey’s latest book shows how human beings best find health and pleasure not by looking within, but by immersing themselves in the world of which they are an integral part.

Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties

  • 14 April 2011
  • 2 comments

Remembering a mystical era.

The New North: the World in 2050

  • 31 March 2011
  • 1 comment

The intensifying struggle for natural resources.

Unnatural: the Heretical Idea of Making People

  • 10 February 2011
  • 16 comments

We human beings persist in thinking of ourselves as a unique species, endowed with special insight into a universe that we can manipulate. In fact, this notion is based on unexamined myth.

How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism

  • 20 January 2011
  • 6 comments

The piety and provincialism of Eric Hobsbawm.

Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalisation

  • 29 December 2010
  • 5 comments

John Gray’s New Year’s resolution

  • 29 December 2010

The Wit and Wisdom of G K Chesterton

  • 09 December 2010

G K Chesterton’s metaphysical nightmare.

Why the West Rules – For Now: the Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future

  • 04 November 2010
  • 2 comments

Ian Morris describes how western pre-eminence came about through accidents of geography, technology and social change, and how these factors are universal. Yet what he presents is not a credible science of history, but a myth.

State of Emergency: the Way We Were - Britain, 1970-1974

  • 04 October 2010
  • 2 comments

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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