[Opinion] Europe at an energy crossroads
Updated: 2012-02-07 18:33:12
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As Queen Elizabeth celebrates 60 years on the throne, it is instructive to glance at the changes that have taken place on our doorstep. Spain has gone from being a fascist dictatorship via an absolute monarchy to a parliamentary monarchy, with a failed military coup in 1981 and perennial republican agitation Greece, a monarchy until [...]
I wanted to weep this morning, and not from the cold. It was a perfect English winter sunrise, stark, bright and icy, and it found me in one of the loveliest spots in my constituency: Hartwell House in Buckinghamshire. I crunched through the frost, marvelling at the confidence that had allowed eighteenth-century landscape gardeners to [...]
Coriolanus is not an easy play for politicians to watch. From the moment he walks onto the stage, the eponymous general flaunts his fierce contempt for the electorate: What's the matter, you dissentious rogues, That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, Make yourselves scabs? His refusal to be polite to voters leads not only [...]
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