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“... to a lawyer, due process, the right to a trial.’ Reviewing our book in the LRB on 19 March 1998, Timothy GartonAsh took a sterner view, describing the whole comparison between Stalinist denouncers and American whistle-blowers as ‘a ludicrous piece of pseudo-liberal moral relativism’. In the light of recent ...”

“... he wrote, however, there has been no shortage of expert opinion to fill the gap. For example, Timothy GartonAsh, one of the first and keenest advocates of a fast-track for Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, has recently adjusted his sights. ‘Having spent much of the past fifteen years trying to explain to ...”

“... same after reading their file. The first and best-known account of the experience in English is Timothy GartonAsh’s The File (1997), and near the end of that wise and sensitive book, he tells himself: ‘My new principle of As If is … try to live in this free country as if the Stasi were always watching you ...”

“... their use of terms. Joschka Fischer would delicately allude to ‘the tragedy of the Armenians’, Timothy GartonAsh speaks in the Guardian of their ‘suffering’, the circumlocutions most acceptable to Ankara. It is true, of course, that ‘genocide’ is among the most devalued terms in contemporary political ...”