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Peace without honour

Dan Hannan

Saturday, 20th March 2004

Dan Hannan says no one could have foretold in the immediate aftermath of the bombs that Spain would vote for appeasement

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Few election results are wholly unpredicted. Punditry is a trade that places a premium on being counter-cyclical. As soon as a consensus begins to emerge around a particular outcome, someone — often Mark Steyn — begins to forecast the opposite. If he is proved right, he can justifiably swank about it afterwards; and if not, no one much minds.

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New Sondheim: enjoy it while stocks last

Gerald Kaufman

Gerald Kaufman is enthralled by the first Sondheim premiere in 14 years. A minor work Road Show may be, but it is still worth much more than anyone else’s musicals

After Baby P: the crisis in child foster care

Mary Wakefield

Mary Wakefield talks to a courageous woman who blew the whistle on the deep systemic failures in the foster care service — and whose only reward was to be hounded and vilified

Real life

Melissa Kite

Battling the blues

Low life

Jeremy Clarke

Welcome to Cairo

High life

Taki

Triple whammy

Reading on the web is not really reading

Susan Jacoby

Susan Jacoby laments the intellectual crisis now gripping America and says that the torrent of digital infotainment is threatening basic literacy and news knowledge

High Life

Taki

Taking sides

Confessions of a travelling non-dom

O`ar Pali

O’ar Pali says it isn’t easy being on planes next to strangers all the time — and you quickly find there are a series of character types, dying to tell you about themselves