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The reactionary progressive
Anthony Dworkin / April 20, 1998
To the right, he is an apostate; to the left, a sinner who repented. Anthony Dworkin argues that John Gray's intellectual journey is more complex: he is a progressive who does not believe in progress
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The Reader, once more
AS Byatt / April 20, 1998
In the last issue of Prospect, Frederic Raphael declared that anybody recommending The Reader must have a tin ear for fiction and a blind eye for evil. AS Byatt was incensed-The Reader, she argues,...
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The business
John Plender / March 20, 1998
Gordon Brown has made it up with the IFS and needs help on reforming savings
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Fire and ice
Edward Skidelsky / March 20, 1998
The end of the Soviet Union has released a flood of new histories of Russia and communism. Edward Skidelsky recommends two-one describes the tragedy of an idea, the other of a people
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Quashing speculation
Ruth Kelly / March 20, 1998
The international financial markets are suffering another wobble. Ruth Kelly asks whether we should consider a "Tobin" tax on foreign currency speculation - or does George Soros have a better idea?
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Curates of utopia
Fred Inglis / March 20, 1998
Who owns Raymond Williams, one of the father figures of the New Left? Fred Inglis tries to understand why his biography of Williams has been vilified by some left-wing reviewers
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How good is Heaney?
Antony Easthope / March 20, 1998
Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney is adored by the British literary establishment. His old-fashioned lyric voice is bland, self-important, and ignores the modernist revolution
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Sleepwalking to hell
Derek Coombs / March 20, 1998
It is usually the generals who carry the blame for the carnage of the first world war. Derek Coombs reconsiders Roy Jenkins's biography of Asquith and argues that the politicians have escaped lightly
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A ghost at the talks
Nick Martin-Clark / February 20, 1998
Loyalist grievances have been threatening the Northern Ireland talks. But, says Nick Martin-Clark, attention will shift to an old nationalist wound-the unfinished business of Bloody Sunday
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Blair's missed chance
Roy Denman / February 20, 1998
Reviewing the extraordinary career of Lord Blair, Roy Denman finds the roots of his failure in the decision-taken just after the triumph of May 1997-to postpone early entry into Emu
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