Simon Heffer

It’s easy to forget how undemocratic Europe was 50 years ago

Not only was it severed by the Iron Curtain, but dictators were in power in Greece, Portugal and Spain, as Simon Reid-Henry reminds us

issue 05 October 2019
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  • Empire of Democracy: The Remaking of the West Since the Cold War, 1971–2017

    Simon Reid-Henry

    John Murray, pp. 880, £30

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