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- When Ian Fleming picked my grandfather to steal Nazi secrets
- The ex-POW teaching Vietnam to swim
- Hillary Clinton's long journey
- Did Operation Ore change British society?
- Mitt Romney's English Mormon roots
- The Cold War rival to Eurovision
- Thankful villages where everyone came back from the wars
- Inside story of the UK's secret mission to beat Gaddafi
- A forgotten hero of World War II
- Charles Tegart and the forts that tower over Israel
- The 73 minutes that changed my life
- On the trail of Orwell’s outcasts
- In Steinbeck's footsteps across US
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From Our Own Correspondent
- The smuggled chocolate treats of North Korea
- African fly-catchers beating disease
- A violent land between Caucasus and Caspian
- Hungary's rawest nerve: Living with Roma
- The 'hero' thief and the crooked taxman
- Finding the perfect musical wood
- Getting behind Israeli 'frankness'
- Rome's charioteers trot into the sunset
- Hunting for rebels on 'Mars' in Mali
- The Indian town with 6,000 widows
- The riches beneath Mongolia's Turquoise Hill
- Suu Kyi: Icon to political player
Previously in A Point of View
- Tom Ripley and a talent for evil (John Gray)
- Leaving Gormenghast (JG)
- Ghosts in the material world (JG)
- Bitcoin's promise of freedom (JG)
- The pain when children fly the nest (Adam Gopnik)
- How different is science from magic? (AG)
- The foibles of four countries (AG)
- What's the secret to a happy marriage? (AG)
- Chess and 18th Century artificial intelligence (AG)
- Crowd-sourcing comets (Lisa Jardine)
- Mary queen of maths (LJ)
- The art of collecting (LJ)
- The winter queen (LJ)
- Why does everyone hate Birmingham? (David Cannadine)
- The world's loveliest train station (DC)
- The bear truth (DC)
- Roll up for the inauguration (DC)
- Staring at the Shard (Will Self)
- The biggest decision (WS)
- A bizarre view of Americans (WS)
- The British vomitorium (WS)
- And all shall worship money... (WS)
- Nostalgia - it's not like it used to be (WS)
- Which comes first - trust or trustworthiness? (Onora O'Neill)
- When students answer back (Mary Beard)
- Pompeii's not-so-ancient Roman remains (MB)
- Why rules aren't pick-and-mix (MB)
- Why the rich look down on the poor (MB)
- Is China more democratic than the West? (Martin Jacques)
- How China sees a multicultural world (MJ)
- What kind of superpower could China be? (MJ)
- Making sense of China (MJ)
- What is history's role in society? (Sarah Dunant)
- The strange allure of teeth (SD)
- Charity shop blues (SD)
- And prizes for all (SD)
- Does the sex debate exclude men? (SD)
- JG Ballard and the alchemy of memory (John Gray)
- Does democracy always equal freedom? (JG)
- The enduring appeal of Sherlock Holmes (JG)
- Are tyrants good for art? (JG)
- Why sales of stamps flourish in tough times (JG)
- Would you want to live forever? (JG)
- What would Keynes do? (JG)
- A time when violence is normal (JG)
- The curse of a ridiculous name (Adam Gopnik)
- Don’t mention the war? (AG)
- How to get your own back on your critics (AG)
- Why are the Beatles still so popular? (AG)
- Teenagers and embarrassing parents (AG)
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