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There is a moving scene in the Russian dissident novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s (1918-2008) The Gulag Archepelago ([1973] ET 1974) where the mastermind behind the Cheka (the brutal Soviet secret police established in 1917), ‘Iron Felix’ Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926), interrogates the mystical Orthodox author and political dissident Nicolai Berdyaev (1874-1948). Solzhenitsyn writes – and, of course, we […]
Continue ReadingA few years ago, I sat with a dozen or so (far more) eminent experts in a secure UK location and reflected on ‘Future Trends’ that Britain faced. Knighted scholars and Generals, anthropologists and economists, security analysts and diplomats considered the findings and conclusions of 120 scholars. I was there as a lowly representative of […]
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Ten years after the launch of Oxford House in 2010, it is surely right we take stock, revamp the website, and set our sights on what lies ahead. If the first ten years focused primarily on the hard (often unseen) graft of laying a solid, reputational foundation, the next decade must see this ‘house’ become […]
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