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The highest compliment I can pay Mark Williams is that after reading his ‘Ireland’s Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth’, I have an appetite to learn the Irish language. He exposes to the light a literary inheritance that has barely flickered in the Irish national consciousness since independence in 1922. It allows […]
Trump is a conduit for two distinct projects: Steve Bannon’s meta-historical ‘Fourth Turning’ and the tech-revivalism of PayPal founder Peter Thiel. Both intend to “drain the swamp” and build condos on top of it for themselves.
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The Right Honourable The Lord Michael Howard of Lympne CH PC QC, born 1941
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Rehabilitating George W is possible only because Trump makes all his predecessors look good
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The logic of following the UK out
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Lessons for the warming but confused citizenry from the failed 1970s predictions of global cooling
Trump’s rise – and policy on climate change – is a symptom of diseased, money-driven US politics
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On a finite planet there is no going back but reviving common ownership is one possible route to social transformation