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Back into Europe
Timothy Garton-Ash / June 20, 1996
The post-Maastricht EU has its priorities wrong. Monetary union is more likely to divide than unite. Timothy Garton Ash bets on it not going ahead and proposes that Britain should launch a "second...
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Plagues: old and new
Christopher Wills / May 20, 1996
Stories of untreatable new diseases, from Aids to Ebola to Creutzfeldt-Jakob, fill the headlines. Might they foretell epidemics on the scale of the Black Death, and even the end of the human race? Or...
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The good market
John Kay / May 20, 1996
John Kay, Britain's leading "stakeholder" economist, separates the virtues of market economics from the vices of aggressive individualism. He argues that individualistic market economies are less...
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The rest of history
Ernest Gellner / May 20, 1996
The late Ernest Gellner, a life-long anti-communist, deplored the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Here he explains his regrets-for those in the east who have had their moral universe shattered,...
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Absolutely off the record
Julia Hobsbawm / May 20, 1996
Absolutely off the record Dear Peter, I feel rather naughty writing to you. A taboo is being broken. Everyone knows that there is an "us" and "them" and you are definitely not one of "us." By which I...
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When was Britain?
Neal Ascherson / May 20, 1996
The assertion of national identities within the United Kingdom has left Britain in an identity muddle. Englishness, stripped of Britishness, has acquired illiberal connotations. But Neal Ascherson...
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South Africa's brain wars
Sophie Pedder / May 20, 1996
Apartheid is over but the battle to control South Africa's institutions is just beginning. Sophie Pedder reports on the succession crisis dividing the liberal English-speaking University of the...
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Talent and technology
George Steiner / May 20, 1996
Will virtual reality spell the end of the literary imagination? George Steiner argues that new technologies will destroy the point of the novel-its permanence. This is no tragedy. Talent has already...
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Shanghai-style
Ian Buruma / May 20, 1996
In China's age of economic liberalisation, the new Shanghai is being ordered to get rich again - on condition that artists and writers, who gave the old Shanghai its free spirit, stay mute. Ian...
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Italy's baby Blair
Beppe Severgnini / April 20, 1996
Beppe Severgnini talks to Walter Veltroni, the man who wants to turn Italy's ex-communist party into an American-style democraticc party
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