John Gray

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Maggie's gift to Gordon

  • 20 September 2007
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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

Maggie's boy

  • 07 May 2007
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"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

Lines of beauty

  • 23 April 2007

At the Same Time Susan Sontag Hamish Hamilton, 256pp, £18.99 ISBN 0241143713

Freedom fighter

  • 12 March 2007
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Isaiah Berlin believed that humans make their own destiny. But his encounter with Adam von Trott, Hitler's would-be assassin, suggests otherwise.

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?

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

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

History: flux or narrative?

  • 17 July 2006

Hegel's notion of progress is oddly relevant to today's politics, finds John Gray

Beyond good and evil

  • 19 June 2006

The neo-cons' favourite philosophy had a distinctly seamy side, finds John Gray

Blind folly

  • 12 June 2006

Seeing José Saramago Harvill Secker, 307pp, £11.99 ISBN 1843432323

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

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