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The European Union has expended a great deal of energy in presenting itself as a civilisational endeavour, a collective renunciation of war and the national chauvinism that spawns it. Brexit was thus
How do you write the history of Brexit when there is so little common ground? How do you avoid playing to the gallery of those who already agree with you? How do you say something surprising about a
Published: January 6, 2021 at 12:39 pm Ellie Cawthorne: Your new book looks at Brexit, but from the perspective of a longer history of the relationship between Britain and Europe. What made you want to write this book? Advertisement Robert Tombs: Our ideas about Europe, our relationship with Europe and the difficulties of that relationship – the whole European project, in fact – are all essentially based on an understanding of the past (and hence of the present), and expectations about the future. You could write endless books about Brexit and the EU, analysing political structu...
By Uditha Devapriya Celebrated by over two billion people across the world, Christmas commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, a fact reflected even in translation: Naththal in Sinhala and Kristumas in Tamil. While most of its symbols were later cultural borrowings, its essence survives through the life story of Christ as related in the New Testament, in particular the four Gospels, two of which directly refer to Christ’s birth or Nativity: Matthew and Luke. The exact biographical details come to us from second-hand accounts, as with other religious leaders from that period, but what all...
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