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Capitalism was supposed to signal the end of poverty. What went wrong?

David Aaronovitch reviews new books about wealth and inequality by Linda Tirado, John Kampfner and Danny Dorling.

By David Aaronovitch

Capitalism was supposed to signal the end of poverty. What went wrong?

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After Snowden, do you feel less safe? David Aaronovitch on Glenn Greenwald and Luke Harding

The Snowden affair turned Greenwald from the humourless Occupy Wall Street version of Richard Littlejohn into that matinée idol…

By David Aaronovitch

The reluctant patriot: how George Orwell reconciled himself with England

Orwell discovered the values of a practical, gentle, empirical people who didn't kill each other because they disagreed over…

By David Aaronovitch

NS Obituary – Lynton Charles

Lynton Baines Charles MP, politician and Labour strategist, 1952-2002. A tribute

By David Aaronovitch

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