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Hugh Dillon reviews W.G. Sebald’s On the Natural History of Destruction and Mark Roseman’s The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution.
Hugh Dillon on Simone Weil and George Orwell
Hugh Dillon unravels the challenges of justice in Guantanamo Bay.
Both the Dresden firestorm and the Holocaust were products of the insidious tendency in wartime for the previously unthinkable to become routine.
Real peace is likely to come to Northern Ireland only when a new generation sets aside the long-dead icons of 1916 and 1922.
Hardliners remain at daggers drawn, but their relevance is fading as Ireland embraces globalisation.