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The psychology of political incompetence is brought out well in Niall Ferguson’s Doom

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As the winner of the International Booker Prize is due to be announced today, ASH Smyth talks to poet, translator and judge on this year’s panel, George Szirtes

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At its best Conflicted reminds us of the central importance of meaningful debate

Why is travel writing so unfashionable and even regarded by some as simply “wrong”?