Some comparisons for Donald Trump
Policies of US president continue to spread unrest across the globe
Adolf Hitler
What Dev did next: The lasting legacy of Ireland’s actions at the end of the second World War
While Éamon de Valera emerged from his good war thanks to his political manoeuvring, he did make one ‘unforced error’
For Sinn Féin, Tiocfaidh ár lá is being replaced by Turn the Other Cheek
Sinn Féin is rightly proud of republicanism’s role in the fight against fascism in Spain. So why is it now opposing assistance for Ukraine?
Who do you trust more with your money: Jerome Powell or Donald Trump?
Although it might seem arcane, issuing criminal proceedings against the head of the Federal Reserve is a huge move of global significance
When sovereignty is signed away: Prague’s lessons for Europe today
The dismemberment of Czechoslovakia and erosion of Ukrainian sovereignty share unsettling historical contours
Like Neville Chamberlain in 1938, Donald Trump is the errand boy of gangsters
The British leader pledged ‘peace in our time’ after appeasing a tyrant – will history repeat itself?
Mysterious speaker exits stage-right at AfD youth conference
German far-right party, which is leading opinion polls, has rebooted its youth wing but conference begins in fascist vein
Mark O’Connell: You’re not on the right side of history – there is no right side
‘History’ has become final arbiter of rights and wrongs, a secular ‘you better get right with Jesus’
‘Whitewashing Francoism’: Spanish youth flirt with far right as 50th anniversary of dictator’s death nears
The far right is surging amid a housing shortage and other problems afflicting the young, as a quarter of this cohort now view the dictatorship positively
The Nuclear Age by Serhii Plokhy: Provoking deep anger over crimes against creation
Work culminates in a stark warning that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine marks a radically dangerous nuclear escalation on several counts
Our system risks presidential farce, in the belief common sense will prevail
Democracy dictates that every Tom, Dick and Harriet, even the deluded ones, can try to take the council route to the presidency
No one sent up Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun better than satirist Tom Lehrer
Von Braun played key role in US moon landings, but now is mostly remembered for being mocked in a song
From Hilde, with Love: A powerful, elegiac story of resistance to the Third Reich
The young couple at the centre of this compelling film are quiet idealists given to neither grand pontification nor cinematic heroism
Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story review – A chilling gaze into a monstrous, soulless void
Netflix series review: It’s hard to see how we needed another documentary about this murderous couple, yet here we are
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