Man’s weather obsession
31 March 1917: Man has for centuries prayed for fine weather. He has even tried to invent it. Clearly it…
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Milan Kundera’s identity crisis
In renouncing his homeland and despairing of European culture, the Czech novelist walks in the footsteps of Kafka.
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From the NS archive: Ulster’s heart-stopping moment
3 April 1998: Peace talks are reaching a conclusion, but can nationalist and unionist leaders persuade their supporters to accept…
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From the NS archive: Still on the edge of terror
22 May 1998: Irish republicans have at last accepted partition. That is the true meaning of the Good Friday agreement.…
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From the NS archive: Mrs Thatcher’s war of bogus principles
21 May 1982: If Thatcher is right, then the price of ejecting the Argentines from the Falklands, however high, will…
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From the NS archive: A merry Christmas
23 December 1922: How to negotiate the many contradictions of the festive season.
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From the NS archive: Family planning
5 December 1986: The simple enquiry about the company you’ll be keeping on 25 December oozes with sour layers of…
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From the NS archive: The Christmas problem
6 December 1930: The revolt against presents is joined by the postmen, who develop a painful ailment which they call…
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From the NS archive: Brüning and Hitler
19 December 1931: The future Führer is manoeuvred to the edge of German politics.
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From the NS archive: Marylebone scandal
2 July 1965: Slum tenants demanded the transfer of unused railway land for affordable housing – to little avail.
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From the NS archive: Blood sports
23 July 1949: If it is killing and giving pain that you object to, you had better give up trying…
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From the NS archive: The execution of Erskine Childers
2 December 1922: Why I would not sign the petition to save my friend from the firing squad.
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From the NS archive: The meaning of Mentmore
8 April 1977: Hospitals, homes for the aged, schools, libraries: all were graciously conferred by charity in an epoch that…
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From the NS archive: The Map
4 October 1930: I opened the map and looked at Skye and the far north of Scotland and felt a…
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From the NS archive: The politics of austerity
3 May 1974: Hard political choices mean being honest with the voters, and Labour was the party to do that.
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From the NS archive: Escorial
13 October 1923: The dingy violet hills of the King of Spain’s residence seemed curiously Northern.
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From the NS archive: Bricks and mortality
20 May 1933: An experiment in Stockton-on-Tees shows the effect of hygienic housing and proper nutrition on a population’s health.
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From the NS archive: Back to all that
11 January 1958: Robert Graves and the writing of the two world wars.
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From the NS archive: Next time the rainbow
6 January 1989: How the US establishments combined to stop Jesse Jackson’s 1988 campaign for the Democratic nomination.
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From the NS archive: The city of Kiev is to have a new railway station
18 May 1929: What could be more appropriate than to make the station a living monument of the city’s intellectual…
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