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2 years

ITALY WILL NOT VETO SANCTIONS ON RUSSIAN GAS - FOREIGN MINISTER

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That's quite the turnaround 👇 GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER CALLS FOR WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL AGAINST PUTIN AND LAVROV - SPIEGEL

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German FinMin Lindner apparently told Ukraine’s ambassador ⁦ @MelnykAndrij ⁩ on the day of the invasion there was no point in sending Kyiv weapons because “you’ve only got a few hours left” before Moscow installs a puppet govt.

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In a crowded field, I've found my favourite line from David Cameron's memoires: "In an effort to move my fellow European leaders I set out my frustrations in an article for the Sunday Times"

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New coalition promises huge change to Germany's fussy old citizenship law: in future, dual citizenship allowed and immigrants can apply for citizenship after as little as three years in the country

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Absolutely loving the straight inverse correlation between level of prosperity and hours worked

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Hungarian state daily Magyar Nemzet on mobilization: “The war starts now… Soon, as many as 2 million Russian soldiers armed to the teeth could begin rubbing out the territory known for the past few decades as Ukraine from the map.”

A háború most kezdődik

Magyar Nemzet | Polgári napilap és hírportál

magyarnemzet.hu

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Hiya Mark, it's the subs' desk. Lovely piece; reads nicely. Only thing - do you have any data for the sequence of assertions you make using our omniscient institutional voice? Chrs, dropping the story back in your basket for now

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A Brit asserts that Nazis were -better- than Hamas because at least the Nazis felt bad about mass murder. That claim is a paraphrase of Himmler. A German minister expresses some reservations about the details, but nonetheless retweets. Fair to say DE memory culture is broken

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Scholz says Nord Stream 2 will not be certified.

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As an aside, Hungarian state media says all kinds of things, but comparing the fall of the Soviet Union to Hungary’s loss of territories under the Trianon treaty is a new one to me.

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The three yellow dots top left are the arts and humanities' share of the 5 billion or so (itself a pitiful sum compared to peer countries) in research council funding the British govt gives each year So much patriotism is demanding we behave like a poor country

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If you’re shocked by the £800k taxpayer-funded Shakespeare study, then I’ve got more bad news (although knowledge is power 💪) 🧵 Here are other examples the Arts and Humanities Research Council has funded (with our money):

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@cath_venables @lottelydia Absolutely with you! There are way too many exams in any case. NONETHELESS I think everyone should be given a free fountain pen.

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Nothing could be more German than Bendict's bio on his publisher website. Undergraduate here, doctorate there, higher doctorate at another prestigious place, chairs held here there and everywhere. Oh, and by the way he was a pope, whatever *that* is.

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@ameliaelizalde @nemanjaYVR Huh? They’re all called The Quirky Tale of the Lighthearted Whimsy or BOLDFACE: How Europe Can Asia In A Circumpolar World

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You spend a decade building up your legend as a deep-cover agent and then the other side just ... tweets it out?

AIVD disrupts activities of Russian intelligence officer targeting the International Criminal Court

The AIVD prevented a Russian intelligence officer from gaining access as an intern to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The person in question works for the Russian Military...

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An almost complete East German works of Lenin sitting forlorn and abandoned on a Friedrichshain windowsill late last night

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The maddest thing here is that setting up and registering a Verein is just about the most integrated thing you could possibly do in Germany! Lebende Zivilgesellschaft! Aktives Bürgertum! But seemingly it’s not quite enough

Riham Alkousaa

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We are a registered hiking club in Germany, mostly Syrians from all over Germany. We went on a hike in Saxony Switzerland today and came back to our hostel to find police waiting for us. Someone called police that a group of foreigners was seen and reported as illegal refugees!

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“A millions-strong armada will descend on the neighbour to sweep away the Ukrainians, who were incited to war by the Americans, trained and armed to the teeth by nato, made drunk on the Bandera cult, and then used as bait.”

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Scholz: "Any delay to integrating the Western Balkans into the EU just makes the region more vulnerable to external influence"

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The war was the Americans’ plan, it continues. “To drive Russia, which had already been humiliated in 1991 as we were - to a far greater extent - by Trianon, even further into a corner with war, bleeding it out with sanctions, and dividing it up yet further.”

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Krastev, in this Spiegel interview, says Putin once told him in Sochi that he thought the predominance of female Russia specialists in the Obama administration was a deliberate attempt to humiliate him

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Hungarian doesn’t have grammatical gender: there is no distinction between he, she and it: it’s all ő (see my bio). So if you ask @google to translate, it makes certain assumptions.

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@tonyjballas I particularly like that qualifier “in that respect” he is right. “Where I and Hegel part ways, however”

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Amazing stuff. A BA in Egyptology and Coptology from Munich will get you a "high potential person" visa, but a BTech in nanoscience from IIT Bombay won't.

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The Telegraph

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"The saddest thing is that Wallis and Edward, despite being banished, were dutiful and patriotic to the end...Meghan and Harry, who took it upon themselves to leave Britain, seem unlikely to display similar loyalty to the Crown on Oprah tonight"

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@brokenbottleboy “We just made Quentin up, and that’s okay. It doesn’t mean stories like his aren’t potentially happening everywhere, constantly. Good journalism is about finding those stories, even when they don’t exist.”

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Germany's old citizenship law was one of the world's more restrictive, requiring people to live here for as much as eight years and in most cases surrender their birth citizenship. Increasingly anachronistic for a country of mass immigration.

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@Abebab @KimCrayton1 Facial recognition can reinforce our biases in real time!

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The weird thing about British-US tea discourse is the idea that of all countries, _Britain_ would know about tea. Not Japan or Turkey, not Russia. Britain.

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@barneyfarmer @Aiannucci @hughbarnard Protest outside balmoral would be quite something

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Greens’ Katrin Göring-Eckardt on how Merkel persuaded her with a single text message not to quit politics in 2005 after she lost a senior party role. “I hope you’re not leaving politics. You’re still needed.” from ⁦ @SZ ⁩

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So cool that there's one corner of the world where people still believe Britain is top dawg

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Pundit Gevorg Mirzayan on Bucha: "This was done by professionals, probably British. They're the best in the area of information operations. [They know how] to place the bodies correctly, do everything correctly, create a nice picture for the necrophilic Western consciousness"

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@lottelydia Are handwritten essays no longer a thing?

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80% of Germans think Afghanistan could unleash another wave of refugees heading their way like in 2015. Fascinatingly, though a clear majority - 62% still think "Wir schaffen das"

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Five years is the default period, though it's reduced to three if the applicant shows an exceptional degree of integration.

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@Birdyword A friend who was pregnant in France swears her doctor told her to limit drinking to a bottle of wine a day

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This front page is a bit ... gaslighty?

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I can’t help thinking this heavily pregnant monastery cat has been breaking her vows. Shamelessly strokeable. 10/10 + an extra 20 for spiritual depth @thecatreviewer

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When you’re really happy to have won and it’s been the fulfilment of all your dreams

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German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said Germany is "open" to cutting Russia off Swift. but we have to know all the implications. "You have to know what you're doing."

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Everyone has their own way of preparing for the coming week

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And it marks a new step in a long journey away from Germany's traditional ancestry-based citizenship law, which into the 1990s let only those who could prove they had German ancestry naturalise, even if they had never set foot in the country.

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@DSORennie @lionelbarber @FinancialTimes @BorisJohnson @Telegraph Hastings dines out on disapproving stories about scurrilous Boris but, as the editor who sent him to Brussels and then printed every one of those lies he filed from there, he bears 💯% of the reasonability for them. A mea culpa would be nice.

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The letters page is bit of the @LRB I always read

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What's a good alternative to shaking hands? Merkel's suggestion: "Look one another an extra second in the eye and smile"

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New: Germany says Russia is going to be cut out of SWIFT

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There's a longing, a dissatisfaction at the heart of this: "why can't we, too, have a traumatic past to legitimise our project". Hugely unpackable h/t @EricGordy

Brexiters buy KGB artefacts for ‘museum of communist terror’

Portrait of Lenin and spy tools among items snapped up at auction by group planning UK exhibition

www.theguardian.com

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Does Budapest ever tire of standing in for literally every city on earth?

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'I shoot for the common man': a gallery of some of the finest work of Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui, killled today in Afghanistan

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Bizarre of @DLF to interview German foreign minister @HeikoMaas the morning after election irregularities sparked all-night protests in Belarus and not ask a single question about this major issue in Germany's backyard

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The New Yorker: a user’s guide “Oh, the Falklands became prosperous? Interesting, I wonder how!” *20 minutes’ scrolling later* “Ah!”

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@DuncanWeldon One day I'll resist the urge to bring up my Rifkind anecdote in that connection. Today is not that day.

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@alanbeattie The Hague, about a week after the referendum, Rifkind talking Brexit at an ECFR meeting. "You have to understand how different it is for us, a country that hasn't been invaded since 1066," he said. IN THE NETHERLANDS.

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@alanbeattie The Hague, about a week after the referendum, Rifkind talking Brexit at an ECFR meeting. "You have to understand how different it is for us, a country that hasn't been invaded since 1066," he said. IN THE NETHERLANDS.

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Under-30s Germany is a one-party state

ZDFheute

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So wählten die unter 30-Jährigen bei der #Europawahl :

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Thing that annoys me about DDR discourse as it stands is that “East Germany: not in fact Mordor, but a place where real people lived real lives” is presented as a radically revisionist stance, rather than as the commonplace it is

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"Being funny is apparently not our strong suit" : German foreign ministry backtracks after sense of humour failure

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@tatentschluss Mir klingt es wie gutes English, bin aber nur Englaender

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Next on my pile

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Just the spectacular chauvinism of thinking “orthodox” “Catholic” “Protestant” are definitely their own totally separate things while “African-Islamic” - all 3-odd billion of them, belong together as one stodgy mass

Florence Gaub 🇫🇷🇩🇪

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2. If we consider ‘European’ to be a set of values rather let’s take a look at the World Values Survey which clusters the world into different cultural hubs.

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My firstborn is not three weeks old and has already received his first official communication: a letter from the German tax office 😻 new life, new legal persons 😻

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More seriously, amazing story, though: a Russian GRU or SVR agent posed as a Brazilian for more than a decade letting him apply for an internship at the International Criminal Court, per the Dutch intelligence service.

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CHINESE STATE BANKS RESTRICT FINANCING FOR RUSSIAN COMMODITIES - BBG AT LEAST TWO OF CHINA’S LARGEST STATE-OWNED BANKS ARE RESTRICTING FINANCING FOR PURCHASES OF RUSSIAN COMMODITIES - BBG INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LTD STOPS ISSUING LETTERS OF CREDIT -BBG

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Aha! So after all that it turns out that -the nation- was at fault! How convenient that there’s no need for culprits and we can all just move on

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Britain has re-learned pragmatism: Janan Ganesh

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Unmissable: an unknown (but presumably financed) Hungarian developer is about to launch REVÁNS, an FPS that allows you, the shooter, to take revenge for the Trianon treaty. Set in a “hidden Transylvanian fortress”, but it’s unclear who the enemy will be

Revans címmel készül magyar lövöldözős játék, amiben Trianont lehet megbosszulni

A történelem alternatív útvonala

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This Spree peninsula cat in Berlin cheered me on as I spluttered through my evening run. No petting allowed but 15/10 for exacting training standards @thecatreviewer

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Ágnes Heller, the Hungarian philosopher, pupil of Lukács, holocaust survivor, bete noire of the Hungarian government, has died aged 90. She gave an interview to Népszabadság eight years ago. Like so much else, it's long been scrubbed from the internet, along with that newspaper

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There has to be a review of Germany's energy supplies, he says. The situation has "fundamentally changed"

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Spectacular return to its roots for the James Bond franchise: offering dazzling glimpses of exotic foreign climes to the disillusioned island-bound inhabitants of a country plagued by shortages

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I weep for this guy’s career. Years and years spent learning and living this, only for the opposition - doubtless taking pleasure in scoring some retribution for MH17 - to burn it to cinders in a moment by publishing his legend in full

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@markknoller The Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office is a civil servant, *not* a political appointee

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It's time to open EU accession talks with Albania as soon as possible, he adds

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Occasions between the rivers and blood speech and 1999 when immigration was absent from the British political agenda, a non-exhaustive list

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That time I ignored the stranger haranguing me on the bus? Yup.

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It's astonishing - for more than 40 years, the word immigration simply went unsaid

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Why has nobody written a cultural history of MTV Europe and its role in shaping European youth culture in the 1990s? What did it do? Along with U2, it was a key driver in the ascent of Ireland, introducing Europe to its other English-speaking country.

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Wait so is Bild saying there are doubts about the independence of AP’s, AFP’s, Reuters’ reporting out of Gaza?

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Germany's is withdrawing its recently published energy security strategy and drawing up another one, he says. He's agreed this with energy minister Robert Habeck, he says - Habeck, a Green, is very hawkish on Russia.

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Putin ally Margarita Simonyan spent years building up a network of broadcasters and news agencies that helped spread Russia's message to the world. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it's all starting to unravel.

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It contains a verb, an adjective and even two (TWO!) intensifiers. The similarities are undeniable

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@BeilinsonOrel @steven_seegel That’s almost always the case:

Alone before an invisible audience: German gunman lived online

The alleged perpetrator of Wednesday's gun attack on a German synagogue had few friends, but a clear idea of the internet audience he wanted to impress.

www.reuters.com

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Genuinely terrifying to contemplate an alternate history where Noel Edmonds made a sideways leap into populist politics. Things really could be worse /pangloss

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#AccidentalPartridge

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But I’m sure the GRU and SVR have robust HR policies that ensure staff are allowed to learn from their mistakes

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A cow is transported by a helicopter after its summer sojourn in the high Swiss Alpine meadows near the Klausenpass, Switzerland August 27, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

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@derJamesJackson Oooh I’ve got a corollary! 41 (b): How much the hijab covers is decided solely by the woman wearing it

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@GoodwinMJ Why are you laundering a meaningless political slogan like "levelling up"? Would you have tweeted "long-term economic plan" a few years back? And "tough on the causes of" a few years before that?

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Somebody draped gigantic Ukrainian flags over two tanks at the Soviet war memorial in Berlin’s Tiergarten

Berlin: Weltkriegspanzer am Sowjetischen Ehrenmal mit Ukrainefahnen verhüllt

Das Ehrenmal erinnert an die sowjetischen Soldaten, die im Zweiten Weltkrieg getötet wurden. Offenbar aus Protest gegen Russlands Angriff auf die Ukraine wurden dort zwei Panzer mit ukrainischen...

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Eva was spectacular. Almost every day, for years on end, an essay-length blog post on the latest developments in Hungary. Acute, often angry, her sense of duty to a country she’d left in 1956 was a wonder. She shaped how the world saw her country.

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@lottelydia This is almost certainly better and fairer to everyone, but I still feel weirdly sad about it

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@ykomska That feels … actionable?

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Does the internet deserve to survive?

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@TheStalwart He's thought hard about this. Sees that it couldn't have been just one $2 trillion coin. That wouldn't work.

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Got to hand it to the novelist Habeck: he alone has the sheer hipster authenticity to post the picture uncropped and unfiltered. Baerbock and Lindner, as befits digital-aware youth, have applied a really violent filter, Mayfair or something

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There's poetry in Romanian immigrant Octavian Ursu - a musician who moved to Görlitz in 1990 - blocking the anti-immigrant AfD from winning its first mayoralty

Mit ihrem ersten Statement nach der Görlitz-Wahl löst AKK Empörung aus

Die Oberbürgermeister-Wahl in Görlitz barg an diesem Sonntag politischen Zündstoff: Erstmals hätte ein solcher Posten an die AfD fallen können – ihr Kandidat Sebastian Wippel hatte im ersten Wahlgang...

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Richard Evans, Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin defeating David Irving's libel suit was arguably the most important victory in the fight against anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. Deeds or words, anyone?

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History teaches us where a failure to stand up to anti-semitism leads - which is why it is all the sadder to see this historian of the twentieth century fail to heed its lessons

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I really hate the way Deutsche Bahn pretends to have assumed you wanted your expensive BahnCard to auto-renew like some sleazy magazine publisher. “Oh! We assumed you knew you had to cancel six weeks in advance. In writing. That’ll be a few hundred euros please.”

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“An Irish Catholic by descent” - like, _racially_ Catholic