Correspondents
Scotland on the eve
David Hayes
15 September 2014
Scots hold the United Kingdom’s future in their hands. No wonder nerves are fraying, says David Hayes
International
Old Caledonia and New Caledonia
Nic Maclellan
9 September 2014
Tony Abbott intervened in Scotland’s referendum debate last month, worried about the threat to the Anglosphere. But independence is on the cards closer to home, writes …
Correspondents
Ireland and Britain: neighbours in transit
David Hayes
31 August 2014
Dublin and London are finding common diplomatic ground just as politics is sweeping them off their feet
Essays & reportage
Venice, washed by many pasts
R.J.B. Bosworth
27 August 2014
Duplicitous, pure, dream-like, artificial, psychopathic, unpredictable? Beneath the overheated commentary about Venice, there’s a real city, writes R.J.B. Bosworth
Books & arts
Christopher Clark’s Sleepwalkers and the Germans. A misunderstanding?
Andreas Wirsching
5 August 2014
An Australian historian’s reappraisal of the origins of the first world war has provoked enormous interest in Germany, writes Andreas Wirsching. But the debate…