Simon Jenkins

                   

Simon Jenkins: We Tilt at Windmills as World War Looms

huffingtonpost.com     25-Aug-2008          

Is the world drifting towards a new global war? Meanwhile, along history's fault line of conflict from Russia's European border to the Caucasus and on to Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, diplomats are shifting uneasily in...                    

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Modernist master

newstatesman.co.uk     21-Aug-2008   1 related          

Despite the carping of anti-modernist reactionaries, Le Corbusier remains the greatest architect of the 20th century and a colossal study just published does justice to his protean creativityLe Corbusier Le Grand is doubly well...                    

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NATO Dithering On Many Battlefields

spacewar.com     21-Aug-2008   431 related          

Berlin (UPI) Aug 20, 2008 - NATO has decided to suspend formal talks with Russia -- a necessary step, observers say, but one that opens yet another front in addition to the many conflicts already weighing down the alliance.                    

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Today's comment from the papers in...

timesonline.typepad.com     20-Aug-2008          

Today in Times Comment Rosemary Righter: Ethiopia - another avoidable disaster Alice Thomson: Now let's top the education medals Magnus Linklater: Arts and heritage pay the price for gold Robert Crampton: Chris Hoy - my part in...                    

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Alan Johnson: Resist Moscow's manoeuvres

guardian.co.uk     16-Aug-2008   365 related          

Democracies must draw a red line under Putin's plans to 'Finlandise' his neghbours Finlandisation is back. This is the fate Putin (and some in the west) now seek to impose on Georgia. And now, as then, Russia hopes to impose...                    

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Idiot of the week

libdemblogs.co.uk     14-Aug-2008   1 related          

I'm deciding which is more idiotic: Simon Jenkins claiming: In the two decades during which British pupils have fled from maths towards social science and the humanities, the economy has boomed. It has done so on the strength...                    

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Gaffe culture and that Policy Exchange report

libdemblogs.co.uk     14-Aug-2008          

The controversy over the Policy Exchange Cities Unlimited report pretty much passed me by until reading today's postings from James Graham and Jonathan Calder highlighting the role of Lib Dem academic Tim Leunig as co-author of...                    

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Howard makes an upbeat return to Canberra

brisbanetimes.com.au     14-Aug-2008   10 related          

Cathy Alexander and Simon Jenkins John Howard may have left parliament, but he can still pull a crowd in Canberra. A relaxed Mr Howard was the centre of attention, beaming at fellow recipients and joking with journalists. But...                    

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Letters: Russia's new challenge for Europe

guardian.co.uk     14-Aug-2008   81 related          

Russia's unjustified military action in Georgia, an EU and Nato aspirant state, provides the situation to judge whether the European Union has truly come of age and can punch its weight in the world. The suspension of EU-Russia...                    

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Georgia and Russia: delusions and realities

bloggers4labour.org     13-Aug-2008   9,179 related          

J. and I visited the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, and the Georgian town of Gori, in the early 1970s, a decade and a half after Khrushchev's "secret speech" denouncing Stalin and the cult of personality. This all helps to...                    

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