International
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Polar Czechs
Czech national temperament fluctuates between ancient national prejudices and slavish foreign imitation
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Braced for Brexit
A quarrelsome group on the Left, Right and Centre in Britain takes on the pan-European establishment
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Fragile Ukraine
Each revolution, including Euromaidan against President Yanukovych, has brought disappointment. The oligarchs remain dominant, led by President Poroshenko, the richest man in the country’ Stalin’s policy of de-Kulakisation killed between two and seven million Ukrainians and annihilated the fabric of village life
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Braced for Brexit
Back in the 1960s I once stood on the plinth of Nelson’s column in Trafalgar Square, London, between Landseer’s lions, at a Connolly Association rally against anti-Catholic discrimination by the Northern Ireland Stormont regime. Lots of people were waving tricolours. Forty years later I spoke again in the same spot, at an anti-EU rally organised by […]
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Democracy and war
Pluralism is more efficient and moderate than majoritarianism
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Put in perspective
Money and machismo drive this autocratic President, in the classic Russian tradition
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Heroism depends on the nobility of the cause