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I used to enjoy being able to buy strawberries in the supermarket in winter. But that was before I saw first-hand where most of the UK’s imported berries come from. The working conditions of migrant farm workers in southern Spain were something I never thought I would see in a European country. While others flounder, … Read more

Large parts of Asia have been especially wet this week and the heavy rain is forecast to continue into next week. Hong Kong issued four black rainstorm warnings – the most times this warning has been issued in a single week. The worst of the rainfall was on 5 August, with more than 350mm in … Read more

The German Green party, Die Grünen, was once the envy of its sister movements across Europe. In the spring of 2021 it was the most popular party in the country, with a predicted vote share of close to 30%. The world’s press even began to ask whether the next chancellor would be Green. Fast-forward four … Read more

Actions to NASA OICS: • • . • Within 30 days of this directive, the Associate Administrator (AA) for the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate (ESDMD) shall designate a Fission Surface Power Program Executive, who will serve as the empowered and accountable official for end-to-end execution of the FSP effort, including procurement, technology integration, interagency … Read more

Who remembers the spate of “introduction videos” that emerged during the first Trump administration – a series of tongue-in-cheek clips about European countries to introduce them to Donald Trump? The viral video trend was sparked by the Dutch comedian Arjen Lubach, who ended his segment on the Netherlands with: “We totally understand it’s going to … Read more

Brexit isn’t working, and the British people know it. Poll after poll shows that people are feeling the terrible damage caused by the deal forced upon us by Boris Johnson, Kemi Badenoch and the rest of the Conservative party, and want something different. There’s no doubt that fundamental change is needed. There’s no doubt the … Read more

The fact that ageing Germany’s generous pension system is unsustainable is political Berlin’s worst-kept secret, but a controversial call to save it by hiking the retirement age to 70 has sparked howls of protest and threatened to destabilise the fractious government. The chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has largely sidestepped the ticking timebomb of the greying population … Read more

Karolina Wigura Jarosław Kuisz We were travelling across Poland by train the day after the country’s sensational parliamentary elections in autumn 2023. When news of the results came through, passengers in our compartment fell into each other’s arms, rejoicing as though a great weight had been lifted from their shoulders. Hard as it was to … Read more