Neal Ascherson
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Politics
The war that changed us
- 13 March 2008
- 30 comments
It began with a blinding flash and promises of speedy victory. Five years on the mission far from accomplished. Neal Ascherson opens this Iraq Special
Television
The corporation
- 06 December 2004
Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the reinvention of the BBC
Georgina Born Secker & Warburg, 564pp, £17.99
ISBN 0436205629
Books
The other side of the hill. Espionage has never been so discredited. The heroic myths of the Second World War have given way to the cynical belief that spooks are just the servants of politicians. But has intelligence ever been as crucial as we thought?
- 24 November 2003
- 1 comment
Intelligence in War: knowledge of the enemy from Napoleon to al-Qaeda
John Keegan Hutchinson, 443pp, £25
ISBN 0091802296
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - The indispensable Englishman
- 29 January 1999
Tom Paine has never been widely honoured in his own land, probably, thinks Neal Ascherson, because he was an enemy of irrational authority
