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Politics, Ideas and the Arts
To Be a Pilgrim
As a Christian, I was deeply moved by a visit to the Holy Land
War, Poets, and the Poetry of War
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon should be remembered as soldiers who were brave enough to show us what war was really like
The Intellectual of The Masses
John Carey sticks up for 'ordinary life' in his memoir The Unexpected Professor
Antediluvian Ark
An extraordinary cuneiform tablet has provided a mine of information about pre-biblical flood legends
The Russians Are Coming
'Like everyone else in Kiev my friend has been having nightmares'
As America Retreats, the World Goes to Hell
The Ukraine crisis has revealed the incoherence of the Obama doctrine. Until the US reasserts itself, liberal democracy is in danger
A Borderland on the Edge
The West still sees Ukraine through Russia's eyes
Europe Cannot Do Without Putin’s Gas
It will be another decade before the Continent can substitute the product of American fracking for Russian energy piped via Ukraine
Father of Russia’s Conservatism
Putin's ideology can be traced back to Sergey Uvarov
Scottish Nationalism is Built on a Big Lie
Alex Salmond’s blend of flag-waving and leftist economics is all too similar to the ideologies that ravaged 20th-century Europe
The Tragic Destiny of Basil Blackwood
Unpublished documents reveal how the brilliant 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava met his end on a wartime mission in Burma