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MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
Climate Change and the Nation State
Arguments for national autonomy in confronting environmental crisis
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
“CLIMATE change will be a battle between uncontrolled capitalism and the planet,” Anatol Lieven declares in his conclusion to this thought-provoking book. In his view, it is far more of a threat to the world’s great powers than they are to each other.
Yet, while the 2008 National Security Strategy of the United Kingdom states that climate change is “potentially the greatest challenge to global stability and security and therefore to national security,”nothing has been done.
Instead the security agenda and expenditure on it have been frittered away on traditional challenges such as the war in Afghanistan which, by 2008, was already effectively lost and from which Britain achieved nothing.
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