Articles By Lincoln Allison
July/August 2016
"Fascinating and highly attractive possibilities open up post-Brexit if we stop panicking and use a bit of imagination."
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Both Donald Trump and Jeremy Corbyn are hostile to the establishment and oppose centrist politics — but the similarities between these apparent opposites go much deeper than that
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"What should one make intellectually of the emotional contemplation of life on the Western Front? What is there to learn?"
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Despite the beauty of Southern Italy, a book studying the Camorra shows it is a place of contradictions
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A trip through Ireland in the sixties showed a country full of contradictions - which still blight the landscape today
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January/February 2014
When should sporting events be boycotted?
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January/February 2014
The 19th-century Italian's musings on political and economics hold surprising insights into what it is to be human
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December 2013
Is the knowledge of cancer worse than the cancer itself?
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November 2013
French cuisine is in the soup. What is to be done?
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July/August 2013
A visit to Andalucia, where unemployment is higher than it was almost anywhere in Europe in the Great Depression
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June 2013
Should we be worried about population growth?
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June 2013
Adam Nicolson's Gentry is a superb survey of the 600-year rise and fall of a class of landed Englishmen
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May 2013
Until recently I hadn't needed the help of the NHS. Prostate Cancer has made it an important part of my life
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July/August 2012
Politicians and bureaucrats at the IOC have made a mockery of the Olympic ideal. The Games-as-state-propaganda machine makes Soviets of us all
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May 2009
A truly Conservative policy on sport should mean more than aiming at a bigger haul of Olympic gold medals
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About Lincoln Allison
Lincoln Allison retired from an academic career at the University of Warwick in 2004 — and again in 2008 — to become a freelance writer and broadcaster. He remains Emeritus Reader in Politics at the University of Warwick and Visiting Professor in sport and leisure at the University of Brighton. His latest book is My Father's Bookcase: A Version of the History of Ideas (Social Affairs Unit).
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