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Society
Wear your poppy with ego
27 October 2003

Observations on conspicuous compassion

Europe
The new Ireland kicks ass
17 June 2002

The English now agonise about their identity, while the Irish, from Ryanair to the World Cup team, a

Politics
Last orders down at MacFoney's
27 August 2001

Now even Dublin has opened Irish theme pubs for tourists. Patrick Westreports

Politics
Unbearable lightness of bodies
12 February 2001

Patrick Westwonders why, in a godless age, we should be so obsessed with corpses

Politics
Faking it big in the 21st century
22 January 2001

We inhabit a world of imitations in which we are no longer even certain what is real, argues Patrick

Culture
Street lies
11 December 2000

Social Realism - Patrick West argues that Coronation Street represents a reality it has hel

Politics
Eat beef and be a macho patriot. Ugh!
20 November 2000

The BSE crisis sounds the death knell of a great institution: the British male

Politics
The secret lives of our Walter Mitties
30 October 2000

Tired of your ordinary life? Why not follow in the footsteps of Grey Owl, Anastasia and Ali G, and i

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