Paul Laity

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An inglorious history

  • 08 May 2006

The Union Jack: the story of the British flag Nick Groom Atlantic Books, 396pp, £16.99 ISBN 1843543362 It would be wrong for Britain to embrace American-style patriotism. While the US Stars and Stripes symbolises Enlightenment rationalism, the Union Jack will always be a remnant of empire

Arabian knight

  • 17 October 2005

The Highly Civilised Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian world Dane Kennedy Harvard University Press, 354pp, £17.95 ISBN 0674018621

The spying game

  • 06 June 2005

A Life in Secrets: the story of Vera Atkins and the lost agents of SOE Sarah Helm Little, Brown, 463pp, £20 ISBN 0316724971

Marxism in the Home Counties

  • 04 October 2004

The Last English Revolutionary: a biography of Tom Wintringham Hugh Purcell Sutton, 288pp, £20 ISBN 0750930802

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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