Richard Gott

Articles by Richard Gott

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In Saddam's land, they hold their breath

  • 13 May 2002

Iraq's streets are full of people buying and selling goods from all over the world. Sanctions have failed. But now the people wait for war. Richard Gott reports from Baghdad

The child-killer

  • 06 May 2002

Magda Goebbels Anja Klabunde, translated by Shaun Whiteside Little, Brown, 367pp, £20 ISBN 0316859125

Sweet revolution

  • 08 April 2002

Photography - Richard Gott on a vision of Cuba that transcends the usual romantic cliches

Antique roadshow

  • 11 March 2002

Imperial Vanities: the Adventures of the Baker Brothers and Gordon of Khartoum Brian Thompson HarperCollins, 271pp, £17.99 ISBN 0002571889

The lost magic of Manchester. The Guardian has always prided itself on good writing, but the paper of today is a shadow of its former self. Richard Gott on the decline of a great British institution

  • 28 January 2002
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The Bedside Years: The best writing from the Guardian, 1951-2000 Edited by Matthew Engel; free with The Guardian Year 2001 edited by Ian Katz Atlantic Books, 268pp, £14.99 ISBN 1903809223

The climate of treason. The true sin of the "Cambridge Five" was not betraying their country, but betraying their class. Richard Gott on a spy's life

  • 26 November 2001

Anthony Blunt: his lives Miranda Carter Macmillan, 590pp, £20 ISBN 0333633504

The Pickwickian PM. Richard Gott is amused by an international pariah and provocateur, and by a lightweight historian with flair

  • 12 November 2001

Churchill's War: triumph and adversity David Irving Focal Point Publications, 1,051pp, £25 ISBN 1872197159 Churchill Roy Jenkins Macmillan, 1,002pp, £30

Sins of the fathers

  • 17 September 2001

Interrogations: the Nazi elite in allied hands, 1945 Richard Overy Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 650pp, £25 ISBN 0713993502

Upwardly mobile

  • 30 July 2001

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes Jonathan Rose Yale University Press, 538pp, £29.95 ISBN 0300088868

Return of the white man's burden. Zimbabwe is in crisis, politically riven and on the edge of famine. Who is to blame? Not Robert Mugabe or his devoted henchmen, argues Richard Gott

  • 23 July 2001
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Bitter Harvest: the great betrayal and the dreadful aftermath Ian Smith Blake Publishing, 434pp, £20 ISBN 1903402050

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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