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Ian Thomson

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The politics of murder

05.08.2025 4

New Statesman

Ian Thomson

Up in flames / Hotel Oloffson is ruined – and so is Haiti

28.07.2025 10

The Spectator

Ian Thomson

Hotel Oloffson is ruined – and so is Haiti

24.07.2025 5

The Spectator

Ian Thomson

Art / The Alfred Hitchcock of British painting

22.07.2025 8

The Spectator

Ian Thomson

The Alfred Hitchcock of British painting

17.07.2025 5

The Spectator

Ian Thomson

The mystical masterpiece from Stalag VIII-A

17.04.2025 7

The Spectator

Ian Thomson

Albania has long lived in Italy’s shadow

Albanians are descended from the most ancient of European peoples, the Illyrians. The country came into existence only after 1912 with the demise...

24.10.2024 8

The Spectator

Ian Thomson

Books / Starving street urchins sell their sisters in the chaos of Naples, 1944

Naples is ‘certainly the most disgusting place in Europe’, judged John Ruskin. The boisterous yelling in the corridor-like streets and beetling...

29.09.2024 3

The Spectator

Ian Thomson

The deep sorrow of losing a sibling

My sister died last summer, before her time, at 58. Her death has left me shaken with sorrow and remorse: we did not always get on. The other day I...

05.09.2024 2

The Spectator

Ian Thomson