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“... The deepest economic crisis in eighty years prompted a shallow revival of Marxism. During the panicky period between the failure of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 and the official end of the American recession in the summer of 2009, several mainstream journals, displaying a less than sincere mixture of broadmindedness and chagrin, hailed Marx as a neglected seer of capitalist crisis ...”

“... he often used the perplexing image of a fat, ill-looking baby, somehow an emblem of innocence and international understanding, but looking more like a remnant from a Terry Gilliam animation. Around 1970, Immendorff severed his links with Beuysian mysticism entirely and adopted Maoism as his guiding ideology. He began making crudely propagandistic ...”

“... razor-wire fences in Hungary; and an epic march towards Western Europe. There is a Syrian refugee crisis and a European border crisis and the one cannot be reduced to the other. The vast majority of the four million refugees are living in countries on Syria’s borders. Turkey is home to an estimated two million, Jordan 1.4 ...”

“... Chinese labourers who live in tents with the Yemenis. They all learn Arabic, unlike an earlier group of foreigners: the British, sweaty and florid, with their colony in Aden, who remained aloof from the locals, and departed ‘leaving nothing behind but the hatred of [the] people’. The Chinese construction workers, by contrast, leave a lasting legacy.The ...”

“... management team of Ark Schools, the UK educational arm of Ark (Absolute Return for Kids), an international children’s charity set up in 2002 by a group of hedge fund bosses. Ark Schools now runs 34 academies in London, Birmingham, Hastings and Portsmouth. Of the eight members of the board – which oversees the ...”

“... the most money in absolute terms on defence – might secede. The sacrifice required to end the crisis afflicting the EU in 2015 was supposed to be Greece. Led by Germany’s Wolfgang Schäuble, the Eurozone finance ministers drew up an ultimatum designed to be too ignominious for Greece to accept. This document revealed a brutal truth about the EU. If ...”

“... unemployment to rocket; in 1982, it reached a high of 10.8 per cent (its peak after the 2008 crisis, by comparison, was 10.2 per cent in October 2009). Jimmy Carter, who had appointed Volcker, was crushed by Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential election. But inflation was brought under control, and the lesson was learned: central banks must not concern ...”

“... rule. I’d been invited to a conference commemorating the centenary but it was the current crisis that was on everyone’s mind. A general strike called to protest against the Eurozone summit had just ended. Still, in Thessaloniki history pulls in the crowds and rouses passions; the auditorium was packed. As Yiannis Boutaris, the city’s charismatic ...”

“... Bank of the Jordan, is only an element in much deeper conflicts involving allegiance, ideology and group identity, exacerbated by the existence of oil and strategic assets which keep the super-powers waiting anxiously on the side-lines, hesitating to intervene directly, yet too opportunistic, or unsure of their interests, to blow the final whistle. The ...”

“... are the French still neocolonial? Or have they finally rallied to the idea that waging war on international terrorists makes sense? Or both? Ten years ago almost to the day, France spoke out in the UN Security Council against the American-led invasion of Iraq. Dominique de Villepin, the eloquent challenger of George W. Bush’s war on terror, has remained ...”

“... or Europe, while they moved in droves to professional careers in other African countries or international organisations. The peasants who make up about 90 per cent of this society – nearly half of whom are illiterate – had to stick it out. In the mid-1980s, when Obote was in power, Eriya Kategaya, a large, quiet man, then in charge of underground ...”

“... the police and special forces, not by the military. Indeed, in the month leading up to the Kosovo crisis, the Army leadership issued two statements appealing to all sides in the province to seek a political solution. Given that these were official Serb documents, they were uncharacteristically respectful of the Albanians. The Army stressed that it would not ...”

“... in his cabinet reshuffle last month was that of Anne-Marie Trevelyan as secretary of state for international development. An ardent Brexiteer, Trevelyan has no known interest in overseas development; just about her only previous public utterance on the subject was an observation that ‘charity begins at home.’ But then she is only the latest head of the ...”

“... think tanks and academic departments that include the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) and the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. From fine old buildings in Whitehall, Temple, St ...”

“... Kwarteng, her new chancellor and close ally. Both were prominent members of the Free Enterprise Group of MPs; their book Britannia Unchained declared British workers to be ‘among the worst idlers in the world’. Her new cabinet, composed of loyalists and ideological confrères, suggests that her model for government is second-term Thatcher, a cabinet ...”