Historian Eric Hobsbawm dies aged 95

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Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm declared May Day "the only unquestionable dent made by the secular movement in the Christian or any other official calendar." In fact the day has two parallel histories - one as the workers' celebration when red ...

The Lokayukta report in Karnataka exposed illegalities, irregularities and crime by mining mafia in connivance with politicians and bureaucrats Madhya Pradesh goes the Gujarat way for power It has tied up long-term contracts and has undertaken reforms, just ...

's proud assertion that "as an Englishman" he thinks of South Asia when immigrant influences are being discussed recalls Harold Abrahams, the Cambridge undergraduate in Chariots of Fire, who ran to overcome anti-Semitic prejudice. Hobsbawm was only ...

History is interesting, and knowing about how it is made and how it is used is an important part of understanding information. And by information I mean what is in your textbooks, what is on the news, and what is happening in the social message. The ...

One who does not disparage politicians as a class can still say that Margaret Thatcher was something relatively rare: a conviction politician, willing to forfeit popularity in order to advance policies in which she fervently believed. Free of ...

The Conservative party looks ready to split. The modernising 'Cameroons' and Europhiles have been drifting apart from the Europhobic and traditionalist right of the party for some time. This backbench rump has now earned itself a name: 'Swivel-eyed ...

As Muhammad Yunus, the Grameen Bank pioneer, said on Wednesday, Bangladeshs worst-ever industrial disaster was both predictable and man-made. The April 24 collapse of the eight-storey Rana Plaza in Dhaka, killing more than 1,100 people and injuring ...

From its earliest years under Sidney and Beatrice Webb, through the landmark editorship of Kingsley Martin and on to Thatcher's and Blair's long years in power, the New Statesman has fought to keep a tricky balance: it is of the left, but neither ...