A Ripple of the Polonaise

Perry Anderson: Work of the Nineties, 25 November 1999

History of the Present: Essays, Sketches and Despatches from Europe in the Nineties 
by Timothy Garton Ash.
Allen Lane, 441 pp., £20, June 1999, 0 7139 9323 5
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... it. The example he gives is the abluted Croatia of tomorrow. This is an argument first made by Tom Nairn about Bosnia, in much the same tension of grief and realism. The extension of Garton Ash’s range to the Balkans thus involves more than a geographical move. It represents an intellectual and moral enlargement. But by the same stroke, it throws into ...

Market Forces and Malpractice

James Meek: The Housing Crisis, 4 July 2024

... the wrong moment to provoke him – he’d been buying booze for a friend. After he got out on licence in March, seven years in to a thirteen-year sentence, he went camping with his brother and had a little drink. The tag alerted his probation officer; since he didn’t do anything bad while he was tipsy, he wasn’t sent back to prison, but the threat of ...