It wasn’t quite le bromance of last week’s press conference with Emmanuel Macron. Then Keir Starmer and the French president had made no effort to conceal their affection for one another. A thousand ways to say je t’aime. They had even concluded their hour in front of the cameras with an awkward hug, unsure if … Read more
Merz says he ‘deplores deeply’ UK’s decision to leave EU In his opening remarks during the press conference with Keir Starmer, Friedrich Merz said that he deplored Brexit. He said: The United Kingdom, and I personally deplore this deeply, decided to leave the European Union. He added that “it is together that we respond to … Read more
Look at the Germany shelf of your local British bookshop and, if one exists at all, it will almost certainly be filled with tomes about the Nazis and the two world wars. To write a book about contemporary Germany, to write anything complimentary – as I have done – is to buck the trend, even … Read more
New Clue to How Matter Outlasted Antimatter at the Big Bang Is Found
Starmer says Tory ministers have ‘serious questions’ to answer about Afghan data leak Keir Starmer starts by saying MPs across the house have always supported the UK supporting Afghans who helped the British army. Yesterday the government set out the failings that Labour inherited. Starmer says ministers in the last government have “serious questions” to … Read more
Before Donald Trump was a politician he was a property tycoon. Naturally, he thought he could fix the Ukraine war with a real-estate deal. In exchange for a ceasefire, Vladimir Putin would get to keep territory he had already seized. But before Putin was a politician he was a KGB agent who mourned the collapse … Read more
Donald Trump’s trade policy has been labelled “Taco” – “Trump always chickens out” – by his critics. But when it comes to his latest trade war with the EU, it’s Brussels that risks chickening out. The US and the EU have been negotiating for months on an agreement. This week Trump made the shock announcement … Read more
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In February 1990, the German news magazine Der Spiegel ran the headline “Why are they still coming?”, adding: “In West Germany, hatred for immigrants from the GDR could soon reach boiling point.” That year, resentment towards so-called newcomers from the east erupted without restraint. East Germans were insulted in the streets, shelters were attacked and … Read more
For those looking for details, Donald Trump’s rambling half-hour press conference in the Oval Office with the Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, offered only a handful of clues. The US will sell weapons to Ukraine, the president said, with other Nato countries paying the bill – but otherwise specifics were scant. No sums of money … Read more