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Liberal Values

Ahdaf Soueif

On Monday, 28 October, six small book collectives, including the Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest), published an open letter signed by a...

On the Doorstep

Jan-Werner Müller

Analogies with 20th-century fascism are not particularly helpful for understanding our times, but one parallel is instructive: it is not ‘ordinary...

We are not OK

Selma Dabbagh

Over a million people have protested in London this year and a majority of the British population think the Israeli prime minister should be...

At the Berlin Staatsoper

Olivia Giovetti

When Verdi’s Nabucco was first performed in 1842, Milanese audiences were quick to see their own situation under Austrian occupation reflected in...

The Stone and the Unicorn

Sally Davies

The first person to grasp the marketing potential of the unicorn seems to have been King James I of Scotland. Kidnapped by the English as an 11-year-...
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