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Fat Chance for Christie—This Time

'By 2016 Chris Christie will have a solid raft of achievements that he can sell to the American people—he is a president biding his time'

October 25, 2011

Dispatches·US Politics

Books Do Furnish a Little Freedom

'The cover of my new book was likely to shock Pakistani sensibilities but my local book store owner said he'd keep it under the counter with the Salman Rushdie novels. Not the

October 25, 2011

Dispatches·Pakistan

Obstacle Source

Government financial obstacles often start as interventions. But they have a habit of making life more difficult for the Chancellor and his aides

September 27, 2011

Counterpoints·Economy·UK Politics

Planet Mirth

Matthew Sinclair's new book, Let Them Eat Carbon, rightly draws attention to the foibles of climate change policy, rather than the global warming debate itself

September 27, 2011

Counterpoints·Environment

Finally Finished

The new Finlandia Hall in Helsinki has been transformed by a Japanese mystic with an ear for acoustics

September 27, 2011

Counterpoints·Music

Turkish Thrash

Decadent expats in Istanbul may be morally outrageous but they add foreign flavour to the newest party city

September 27, 2011

Counterpoints

Intelligence Spared

‘Europe’s intellectuals should get on with the job of helping to lift the continent out of its apparently endless crisis’

September 27, 2011

Europe·European Eye

Editorial image for "The Red Roots of Folk Music" — Folk music has long been influenced by ultra-Left politics.

Folk music has long been influenced by ultra-Left politics. Yet as the example of composer Cornelius Cardew has shown, even those with Communist sympathies have things to teach us about community music

September 27, 2011

Communism·Critique·Music·UK Politics