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February 2009
‘The post-1989 temptation in Prague has been two-fold. The first has been to legislate the totalitarian past out of existence, the second has been to copy the liberal West blindly at a lag of 20 years’
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January 2009
‘In his decade as president, Chávez has parlayed socioeconomic resentment into near-invincibility. But Venezuela's decay, and the chinks in his armour, are there for all to see’
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December 2008
US Election Week diary: New Yorkers and their attitudes towards the new president
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December 2008
The Armistice commemorations in Ypres: Remembrance cannot cure us of the instinct for war, but it can help to restrain us
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