South Carolina senator has reconciled with the man he once called a ‘jackass’ and a ‘bigot’, and is pushing him to expand the war
To sceptics, Donald Trump’s war in Iran is a hubristic blunder that co…
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‘End of an era’: death of Khamenei seen as Iran’s Berlin Wall moment ⊖⊖
Iran experts believe the symbolism of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death is overwhelming and that the regime will struggle to fill the power vacuum
Even before US and Israeli missiles began raining down, …
3 months ago
'This is our Berlin Wall moment. So why is Starmer all but silent on the plight of the Iranians?': A powerful intervention from the son of the late Shah of Iran ⊖
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The chant resounds through the streets of Iran's holiest cities. 'The final battle. Pahlavi will return,' the protesters cry. 'Javid Shah! [Long live the Shah!].
Through the lens of history, Trump's legacy will be more of a blotch than a Maga masterpiece | Simon Tisdall ○
Take this hopeful thought into 2026: the tyrants we endure always falter, and their ‘seismic’ upheavals are usually false dawns
For those who lived through the cold war, the fall of the Berlin Wall on…
4 months ago
‘No topic is too difficult’: children’s series on life in communist East Germany wins an Emmy ⊕⊕
In Fritzi’s Footsteps tells story of a girl growing up in Leipzig who witnesses the fall of the Berlin Wall
The creators of a children’s television series about life in communist East Germany have sai…
Things That Disappear by Jenny Erpenbeck review – a kaleidoscopic study of transience ⊕
A collection of columns by the German Booker winner reveals a keen eye for details that mark the passing of time
Jenny Erpenbeck wrote the pieces collected in this compact yet kaleidoscopic book for a…
5 months ago
Big trouble in ‘Little Berlin’: the tiny hamlet split in two by the cold war ⊖
A new museum in Mödlareuth tells the story of how a settlement of only 50 people straddled Bavaria in West Germany and Thuringia in the east
A creek so shallow you barely got your ankles wet divided a…
Era of free trade and investment is over, Canada’s PM tells Apec summit ⊕⊕
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Mark Carney warns Asia-Pacific leaders global economy undergoing profound change, as China’s president mounts defence of free trade
The Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, has warned that the era of…
Brian Harris obituary ⊖
Photojournalist who covered the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the collapse of communism in eastern Europe
The photographer Brian Harris, who has died aged 73 of cancer, left school at 16 to become…
7 months ago
Art and politics are not the same thing – but the Anna Netrebko case shows what happens when they collide | Martin Kettle ○
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The arts and politics are bound to mix, but they are not the same thing. In the cold war, Soviet artists performed in the west. Should the Russian soprano, who has condemned the Ukraine invasion, be …