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- The Skripal Affair and the Problem of Russia
- The Sculptor, the Spy and a Moment of Political Sincerity
- The Russian Revolution and British Society
- The Arc of Utopia in the anniversary year of Russia 1917
- The Seventh Function of Language
- A German Idealist on Globalization – and what he might have to say to an anti-Brexiteer
- Wolfgang Tillmans and his Fragile alter ego
- The Royal Academy’s show Revolution and the historic meaning of the 1932 Russian Artists’ exhibition
- ‘Mozart and Salieri’ from Alexander Pushkin to Peter Shaffer
- Adorno, the Frankfurt School and the Soul of Europe
- Derrida: A very short defence
- Tony Blair: Idealist, Liberal or just Confused?
- Shakespeare and Wagner or Turning the Bard Inward
- Iris Murdoch on the Easter Rising 1916
- Antonio Tabucchi’s novel of pessmism and measured hope set in Fascist Portugal
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