Natasha is a historian and writer. She graduated from Oxford with Joint Schools honours in History and German and has a Masters degree in Russian with International Relations from UCL. She has written for the Oxford Student and currently broadcasts on national radio. Her main interests are theatre, philosophy and women’s issues. She supports various humanitarian groups in her home town. 
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The former Chancellor of West Germany, Willy Brandt, probably came close to defining how such structures often come to be judged by history when he coined the phrase “the Wall of Shame” to describe the Berlin wall. Not all walls are shameful but they do run a heavy risk of being considered a crude solution at best, even by those who erect them.
Current political debate is suffering from the lack of nuances introduced, the desire for a sound bite and a quick fix, the laxity of believing that now is not a good time to debate, even amongst friends. Every point has to be debated in detail instead of an over-reliance on shady historical metaphors. Sometimes it seems we hear and read the same things over and again. Debate is all we have to move forward
British historian David Starkey recently said that history has been “feminized”, but this shows a misunderstanding of the effect the new army of female historians has had
The public death of Jade Goody and uproar over Google Street maps in the UK has again bought up the defining issue of our day: privacy, or the lack of it. Natasha Proietto disentangles how we got here and what it portends for the future
Not long ago, large parts of British society believed in monsters, but the residue of that mindset is still with us.
Many women nearly have it all, so those currently inactive must be encouraged and empowered to make a difference in society. The more campaign and pressure groups there are the better.
On February 8th the Swiss people will have a referendum on whether to open up bilateral accords with Romania and Bulgaria. In this complex democracy, the debate is no divided along ideological lines, but the result will have massive implications for the future of the country.
