Tasked to police this democracy are blinded by confetti

Guardian - The real problem with the Bush years is not so much that he did what he did, but that he managed to gain the consent of America’s political class in enabling him to do it. His political estrangement is not because he tried, only because he failed.

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Serbia’s bitter salute to nationhood

Guardian - The problem for poetry in general and Serbian poetry in particular is that there is something poetic about nationhood. Like poetry, nationalism depends on language. And its moods are covered by poetic genres, especially the heroic and the elegiac. Taken together, the heroic and elegiac cover the entire range of Serbian [...]

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Population paradox: Europe’s time bomb

Independent - A leading medical journal recently called for British couples to stop having so many children to ‘reduce global warming’. But much of the rest of Europe has a different problem: declining birthrates and ageing populations. And trends across the traditionally more fertile developing world are just as uneven. Paul Vallely investigates [...]

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