Book Review
Climate change: lessons from the past
The cooling of the earth, not its warming has proved most destructive
J’accuse: the case that never closes
France was putting itself on trial, for its actions during the war
When young men headed East
The early growth of the Empire was fuelled by spices, not slaves
A civilised discussion
If we are to defend civilisation, we had better pin down what we are talking about
Bringing the Bacchae to the bush
Chula finds a cultural confidence in Malawi that is lacking in the contemporary West
Anatomy of a medical scandal
How not thinking can infect a workplace, community or entire culture
The country that went to the wall
From its birth after 1945, to its death after 1990
The anatomy of oikophobia
A cyclical view of history exposes Western self-contempt
Deconstructing a giant of the screen
For a gay, Hegelian, terrorist-sympathising dialectician, Fassbinder was a rather conservative moviemaker
The rich and varied past of our islands
Romans, Danes, Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Norwegians all made their marks