NELSON MANDELA
September 2014
A personal reminiscence of the Nobel laureate, whose anti-apartheid novels masked her own ruthless ideology
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July/August 2014
The photogenic Danish prime minister epitomises the out-of-touch Brussels elite
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January/February 2014
'Although Mandela is an incomparably more important figure than Princess Diana, the process by which the real person is replaced by a fantasy is no more edifying this time'
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'I have spent this week in the lonely position of one who admires both Nelson Mandela and Margaret Thatcher'
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Nelson Mandela
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