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Financial markets hate uncertainty, which could be an issue this year

Further sanctions would torpedo a deal—even though there's logic to the call

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Gerry Adams is riding the anti-austerity wave

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"Safe" investments have vanished

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The UK cannot protect itself from developments in the eurozone

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Non-ideological times like ours cause ideological politics to appear on the outskirts

Since he has none of his own

I can't wait for the day when Amnesty International closes down, says its UK Director

"A morality tale: if guilt is to the soul what pain is to the body."

Sarah Kane's plays have been overshadowed by their violence and her suicide. But as well...

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The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East—1914-1920 by Eugene Rogan...

Kazuo Ishiguro's brilliant new novel is a quest set in post-Roman Britain that asks big...

For 20 years Hutton has railed against Anglo-Saxon capitalism and lauded the European...

An inmate's riveting account of life in Guantanamo Bay raises serious questions about why...

To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven Weinberg (Allen Lane,...

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The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973 by Mark Greif...

Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? by Katrine Marçal (Portobello, £12.99) “How do...

The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics by Andrew Small (Hurst & Co.,...

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Some you win. Some you lose. You can’t make someone stay in therapy.

That’s a casual cigarette, not a cigarette cigarette. Different thing.

Georgians have kept their culture despite millennia of invasion and occupation by...

It needs to breathe, to evolve and gracefully to decline