is Isaiah Berlin professorial fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He is the author of nine books of “history of the present”, including most recently Facts Are Subversive, and writes a weekly column in The Guardian, which is widely syndicated in Europe, Asia and the Americas. He is director of Free Speech Debate, a multilingual website for the discussion of freedom of expression.
As a historian his expectations are gloomy, but as a political writer his optimism is strategic: Timothy Garton Ash talks about the European Union’s internal flaws and debates whether crises and collapses are always necessary for renewal.
