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Out of the rubble

Out of the rubble

I spoke to the silver-haired old man again today. Up and down, he’s been my barometer on the mood in Baghdad. He was eager for the overthrow of the regime, but tearful when his daughter miscarried during the early US bombing and shattered when his nephew was...
Intellectuals, democracy and empire

Intellectuals, democracy and empire

‘Free people will set the course of history’ As the Bush administration struggled to find a justification for launching an attack on Iraq, churning out sketchy intelligence reports about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and links with al-Qaeda,...
Inserting a new dialectic

Inserting a new dialectic

Governance’The question today is not whether or not we want to have globalisation,’ observed the former Socialist Prime Minister of France, Lionel Jospin, during an official visit to Japan in December 1999. ‘Globalisation’, said Jospin,...
Australia: an unhappy country

Australia: an unhappy country

Towards a post-growth societyFor the great majority of people in rich countries the human condition is no longer dominated by an ever-present need to provide for survival and to accumulate assets to guard against lean times. The defining struggle is no longer between...
Another UK PPP deal falls in a heap

Another UK PPP deal falls in a heap

An expensive lessonThe brave new world of public-private partnerships suffered a major setback this month when WS Atkins pulled out from running Southwark council’s education servicesThe withdrawal came just two years into its five-year, £100m contract with the...
A permanent casualty

A permanent casualty

The death of investigative journalism and who killed it?The Golden Age of journalismBefore we get around to revealing the names of the murderers, I think I’d better anticipate some of the criticism that my colleagues in the journalism game might throw at me. You...