World Vlad the impatient: why timid western politics won’t wash with Putin The world waits to see how far the fire that has been lit by Russia’s invasion of Crimea will spread in Ukraine and elsewhere. By Julian Evans
The first postmodern ironist We live in a passionless age, wrote the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. That is why he speaks to us t By Julian Evans
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