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November 2013

How do racisms start?

A History of Blood Hatred

How do racisms start? Francisco Bethencourt’s study of racial prejudices since the Crusades does its best to answer the culturally sensitive question
November 27, 2013
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What's happened to Radio 4's Thought for the Day?

Higher Thoughts

What’s happened to Radio 4's Thought for the Day? An erstwhile spiritual haven has made way for a platform for please-all secularist banalities
November 26, 2013
Angela Merkel's mobile phone is her instrument of power.

A Cold War Chill

'Angela Merkel's mobile phone is her instrument of power. What happens when this tool of democracy is subverted by our most important ally?'
November 26, 2013
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Radio Play

Radio Play

Chess may not seem suited to radio, but in the Sixties the BBC broadcast special programmes featuring the world’s greatest ever players
November 25, 2013
And yet Holst wrote music of almost uniformly high quality, much of which is little known, even though well recorded.

Holst Beyond The Planets

It is a misfortune shared by several composers — notably British ones, who still struggle to be valued by those loath to travel beyond Mozart and Beethoven — to be known for
November 25, 2013
Their Own Worst Enemies

Their Own Worst Enemies

Jonathan Schanzer’s State of Failure persuasively argues that Palestine is not a country or state but a cause with the sole intention of destroying the Jews
November 25, 2013
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Liberty Here, Tyranny There

Liberty Here, Tyranny There

The apologetics over John Stuart Mill’s shocking attitudes towards foreigners is the only thing that lets down Georgios Varouxakis’s otherwise excellent study of the political philosopher You can make a passable case
November 25, 2013
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