THE WEST
April 2014
The betrayal of Ukraine is only the latest chapter in the slow retreat of Western civilisation since the triumph of 1989. Unless something changes soon, that retreat now threatens to become a stampede.
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June 2013
A Westminster lecture
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November 2011
‘Do we still have an intellectual elite that reads, and writers to cater for it? In Germany, we have Merkur’
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November 2011
The pessimists are lining up to announce the fall of the West and above all of the US. But the Americans will prove them wrong
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