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🇩🇪🔥Germany woke up to a political earthquake in Saxony-Anhalt. The AfD took 43.8% of the vote, more than doubling its previous share, while the governing CDU collapsed to 17.2%. At that point, calling this a little protest vote is rather like describing an elephant in your kitchen as “a minor storage issue.” 🐘 Something much…
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🇺🇸🇪🇺An uncomfortable possibility is emerging around the war in Ukraine. If Donald Trump eventually brokers an agreement that stops the fighting and produces a durable peace, European leaders may have to ask why they could not achieve the same result themselves. For years, Britain, France, Germany and the European Union have treated the war as…
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Sometimes I genuinely wonder whether programmes like this are designed as entertainment, or simply as a convenient way of keeping the fools indoors, staring at a screen while another collection of overexposed celebrities compete for attention. We already have celebrity dancing, celebrity cooking, celebrity jungles, celebrity travel, celebrity quizzes and celebrities interviewing other celebrities. Apparently…

