Facts Are Subversive: Political writing from a decade without a name
2nd Jul 2009; 18:00
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One of Britain's most influential and admired commentators presents his latest volume of dispatches from a troubled world.
Timothy Garton Ash witnessed the fall of Milosevic in Serbia, visited Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, watched the Orange revolution in Ukraine and talked to militant mullahs in Iran.
He will discuss these pivotal moments from the past decade, and share his critical reflections on the future of Europe, multiculturalism and terrorism.
Against every post-modernist in the world, Timothy Garton Ash maintains that there are facts, and that establishing them is both a political and a moral imperative - and an aesthetic one, too.
Respondents: John Burns, formerly Baghdad Bureau Chief of the New York Times; Adam Roberts, President-Elect of the British Academy.
Chair: John Lloyd, Director of Journalism, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
In association with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
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