Rob Blackhurst

Articles by Rob Blackhurst

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Reasons to be fearful

  • 31 July 2008
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The spectre of atomic weapons has been replaced in the popular imagination by that of climate change - yet two defence analysts convincingly argue that another nuclear catastrophe is as likely as ever

Accidental tourist

  • 08 May 2008
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Rob Blackhurst books a family break at a Portuguese resort - and finds himself babysitting in Praia da Luz

Haven't we all got enough on our plates?

  • 09 May 2005

Election: the future - power to the people. Rob Blackhurst prefers centralised control freakery to the inefficiency and corruption of devolved power. Most people, he argues, are too busy to run schools and hospitals

The sad decline of the policy wonks

  • 31 January 2005

Rob Blackhurst finds that London's think-tanks, enslaved by corporate sponsors, no longer have a significant influence on the political parties

A new force in British politics

  • 26 July 2004

Most voters don't care about foreign policy. Muslims do, and the results could be dramatic

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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