Ukraine—‘history to blame’?
In this centenary year of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses (see ‘Seen on TV’, pp 52–3, and ‘Museum Eye’, pp 56–7), it is tempting to apply the condescending observation of one of its characters, Englishman Haines—‘It seems history is to blame’—to the present crisis in Ukraine. It might be more accurate to observe that … Read more