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Timothy Garton AshThe Guardian |
As I contemplate a forest of small Ukrainian flags on the Maidan in central Kyiv, placed there by bereaved relatives as a memorial to the war dead,...
In these times of planetary polycrisis, we try to get our bearings by looking to the past. Are we perhaps in The New Cold War, as Robin Niblett, the...
By next Monday, Vladimir Putin will have been “re-elected” president of Russia. In truth, Russian voters have no genuine choice this weekend,...
As we approach the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine this Saturday, ask yourself a simple question: is Europe at war?...
On 6 June, Europe will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the D-day landings that began the liberation of western Europe in 1944. However, there’s...
“Evolution or revolution?” The question being asked in Poland today captures the dilemma of trying to restore liberal democracy after eight years...
I have been in more than 20 European countries this year and I have seen two Europes. Across large parts of the continent, you’re still in a Europe...
As the leaders of the world’s two superpowers, the US and China, hold a summit meeting in San Francisco, many observers hark back to grand bipolar...
Back in 2018, as Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) neared the end of its first term in office, its leader, Jarosław Kaczyński, told one...
The crisis in English and Welsh prisons is, reportedly, so acute that judges have been told to hold off jailing anyone else for the moment. The total...
To be in Poland on Sunday night was to experience a rare moment of political joy. Young voters queued until the early hours to see off the xenophobic,...
D uring the two months I spent in the US this summer, I kept asking every journalist, academic and analyst I met one simple question: “Who will be...
“H ow can anyone govern a country with 246 different kinds of cheese?” Charles de Gaulle, the founding president of France’s Fifth Republic, is...