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The idea of a liberal "west," standing out against fundamentalism, is a fallacy.

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It takes a fine line between alarmism and complacency to judge Pakistani border tensions

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Islamic fundamentalists have forgotten their own heritage of women writers and...

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Labour's strategy for getting Britain into the euro is still too passive and economistic....