Adrian Hamilton: Assassination should never be a weapon of state
13 January 2012 12:00 AM
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13 January 2012 12:00 AM
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05 January 2012 12:00 AM
The frightening thing is that so many discuss war as if it was perfectly rational
30 December 2011 12:00 AM
Talking about the need for growth isn't going to make it happen any more than cuts will help businesses
22 December 2011 12:00 AM
15 December 2011 12:00 AM
10 December 2011 12:00 AM
As a committed European – indeed, I would even own up to having urged our joining the euro at its inception – I can only call what European leaders are now up to as a complete democratic disgrace.
01 December 2011 12:00 AM
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17 November 2011 12:00 AM
10 November 2011 12:00 AM
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09 November 2011 12:00 AM
It's the gaggle peering at the caption so that you can't see the actual picture beside it that drives you mad in art shows. Those, and the 6ft 6in (and that across the shoulders) man who stands staring at the object directly in front of you so that you are barely able to see the edges of the picture, never mind the whole. Just as, when booking theatres, people over 6ft should be forced to sit in the back few rows, so there is a case for channelling gallery-goers into separate lines depending on height.
27 October 2011 12:00 AM
World View: Here is a chance for the prime minister to step in, help find a solution, and then demand a return
21 October 2011 12:00 AM
The Tunisian uprising happened so fast and the overthrow of the regime in January came so quickly that it is easy, as it goes for elections this Sunday, to take it for granted, a footnote of calm in a chapter of violence and suppression which has marked its neighbours to the west and east.