Section: The United Kingdom
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Instant Opinion: the Trumps are ‘the Republicans’ second most dysfunctional family’
Description Your guide to the best columns and commentary on Tuesday 25 August Credits Spencer Platt/Getty Images Alt Text Kellyanne Conway Your guide to the best columns and commentary on Tuesday 25 August Reaction …read more Source:: The...
Iran plane crash: Cockpit exchange recorded after missile hit Ukraine jet
All 176 people aboard a Ukrainian plane were killed when it was mistakenly downed by Iran in January. …read more Source::...
The politics of the spice rack: Russia’s love of dill
Each jar and packet in the kitchen is part of a wider story, involving geography, culture and politics. Let’s face facts: dill has a bad reputation. Lacking the romance of basil or the sophistication of rosemary, this sweet, pungent herb will be familiar to anyone who’s eaten a pickle, or maybe tried gravlax. In the West, its usage...
The bully of Belarus: will Russia intervene to save Alexander Lukashenko?
Military intervention would turn most Belarusians against their larger neighbour – but the Kremlin could decide intervention to prop up its closest ally is worth the risk. Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus’s embattled dictator, never wanted to be a citizen of Belarus. The former chairman of a collective farm was the only member of the Supreme...
From Belarus to Lebanon, the US to Thailand, righteous moral outrage is sweeping the globe
Anger, it can seem, is everywhere. It spreads faster than ever. It is viral, but unlike coronavirus cannot be socially distanced into abeyance. Its roots are deep. Amid demonstrations over Belarus’s fraudulent election, President Alexander Lukashenko tried to bolster his position with a public appearance on 17 August. It did not go well....
Belarus looks to Russia as anti-Lukashenko protests build
Why the likelihood of Russian military intervention remains remote, but not out of the question. An extraordinary week in Belarus was topped off by the largest opposition rally in the history of the country on Sunday, 16 August, a week after widely-disputed elections saw President Alexander Lukashenko returned with 80 per cent of the vote,...
Belarus protests: will Russia intervene to save ‘Europe’s last dictator’?
Description Minsk approaches Moscow for support as anger over election rigging continues to mount Credits Getty Images Alt Text Putin Lukashenko Minsk approaches Moscow for support amid violent protests over alleged election rigging In Depth …read more Source:: The...
Instant Opinion: BLM is ‘disturbing threat to racial progress’
Description Your guide to the best columns and commentary on Thursday 13 August Your guide to the best columns and commentary on Thursday 13 August In Depth Gabriel Power Thursday, August 13, 2020 – 11:38am …read more Source:: The...
From the NS Archive: We must drift: a letter from Joseph Conrad
1 June 1935: Where’s the man to stop the rush of social, democratic idiocy? Joseph Conrad was born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857 to ethnically Polish parents living in western Ukraine. After a time in the British merchant navy, “Conrad” became a British citizen in 1886. The following letter was written the previous year at a time...
Ten ways to ensure a more geopolitically active and relevant Europe
The EU’s concern with its own stability during Covid-19 has come at the expense of its focus on the wider world. On the morning of Tuesday 21 July, the European Council president Charles Michel issued a one-word tweet: “Deal”. This marked the conclusion of four days of intense negotiations resulting in the EU’s €750bn...
