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I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with ...

Cannes was chosen in the hope that the festival would revive its appeal as a luxury destination, which had floundered after ...

Austerity is a choice. The protection of the family at the expense of other ways of living is a choice. The transfer ...

Attempts to abolish England’s bishops, driven by Scottish Presbyterians, appeared to open the door to social revolution. So ...

He is an efficient man, with some previous experience of the production line … Walther Rauff is the inventor of the Gas Truck ...

The crux of Daniel Kehlmann’s Director is whether it’s weakness or necessity that makes G.W. Pabst compromise.

Humanitarian aid has long served as cover for Israeli crimes. Under the Geneva Conventions, an occupying force ...

There’s a pleasing Cheshire usage that Garner uses throughout his books, plunder to mean ‘ponder’, and as far as he’s ...

Close to the end of Bruce Chatwin’s celebrated, cryptic, not completely reliable book In Patagonia, published in 1977, there is a short passage about a resident of what was then the remotest city in ...

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