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Robert Hanrott
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Essays are associated with exams and such-like unpleasantnesses. But sometimes you don't know what you think about a subject until you sit down to think, and write, about it.

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On Roof Gardens

An oasis in a great city

Privatization

What war failed to do in the early 20th Century the rich have
succeeded in doing legally and without a struggle.

And previously........

We should be supporting the European Union!

It is in the British national interest to throw its full support behind the EU

Impressions of Syria

A Report on a visit to Damascus in December 2007

A Reaction to Senator Obama

My reaction to a speeech by Senator Obama

In Praise of the Dilettante

Why we need more inspired generalists

What is the point of democracy?

Government for all the people!

What political cataclysm?

The outcome of the mid-term elections in November 2004
was tame in comparison to
what it ought to have been.

We've been here before

On the Impending Iraq War in 2003

Margaret Thatcher for Americans

What it was like living under Thatcher's rule

A Walk to Rome

Walking from Canterbury to Rome in the year 2000

Knowing the bad people.

Do the Neocons have American interests at
heart? Top Neocon think tanks and their
publications.

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