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Trump’s UN rant revealed his true priorities – and Britain should watch out

Less than a week after his state visit, the president launched a surprise attack on the UK – and sent a clear signal about US power, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

‘No one talks about this’: Remembering Germany’s role in colonising Africa

How do Germans remember – or forget – their colonial history and role in the Berlin Conference that carved up Africa?

Al Jazeera

Colonising Africa: What happened at the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885?

This month marks 140 years since Western powers sidelined Africans and carved up ‘ownership’ of the continent.

Al Jazeera

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How an €83m inheritance feud with Germany’s playboy prince could tear apart Otto von Bismarck’s dynasty

A bitter inheritance feud is plunging the Bismarck dynasty into scandal, exposing decades of grudges and tarnishing a once-revered legacy

The Independent UK

French director Cédric Djedje shines light on Germany's African colonial history

In his play Vielleicht, French-Ivorian director Cédric Djedje lays bare Germany's colonial past, through the story of the 40-year struggle of Afro-descendants to change the names of three streets dedicated to German colonialists in Berlin's African quarter.

Radio France Internationale

Kamala Harris says Donald Trump 'is a fascist' after his chief-of-staff says he wanted generals like Hitler's

Harris said she believes Trump would be ‘a president who admires dictators and is a fascist’

Evening Standard

Harris decries Trump after John Kelly says he wanted generals like Hitler's

Kamala Harris said Wednesday that recent reporting on comments Donald Trump made to his longest-serving chief of staff serve was a window into who the former president “really is” and the kind of president he would be

The Independent UK

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Friday essay: ‘me against you’ – Jon Ronson investigates the perpetual outrage of the culture wars

The culture wars are perpetually waged in response to new and imagined threats, but they’ve been around forever. They just keep taking on new forms. In Australia, we’re seeing heated zero-sum disputes about everything from gender and sexuality, and race and religious freedom in schools, to climate change and the…

The Conversation

Much as it galls the French, English has become Europe’s cultural lingua franca

The British may have left the EU, but if recent films are to go by, their language remains centre stage

The Guardian - UK

Our older population will triple in 40 years. But a social insurance model won't fix the aged care funding crisis

Preliminary data from the 2023 Intergenerational Report shows Australia’s population aged 85 and over is set to more than triple over the next 40 years. This will exacerbate existing strains on the aged-care system.

The Conversation

Across the Globe, Government Health Care Systems Are Failing Us

By restricting private health care choices, the NHS and other beloved single-payer systems were doomed from the start.

Reason

In Germany, the tweedy prince is just the latest in a long line of failed putsches

Heinrich and his cronies seem unlikely insurrectionists but their connections run back to Bismarck’s time

The Guardian - UK

Labour should reverse on not reversing Brexit

By sticking to the ‘art of the possible’ and accepting Brexit, Keir Starmer is doing the nation a disservice

The Guardian - UK

Income redistribution or social insurance? A federal MP considers the future of the welfare state

The Albanese government has something of an embarrassment of intellectual riches, with no less than three of its MPs holding PhDs in economics. Two of them, Andrew Charlton and Andrew Leigh, are also prolific authors with at least a dozen books between them.

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Dominic Cummings attempts career reboot as political speaker

Ex-adviser to Boris Johnson holds forth about his hero Otto von Bismarck at Orwell Festival of Political Writing

The Hindu

The return of the great power rivalries

The post-Cold War period of peace in Europe is more an aberration than norm in the continent’s history of conflicts

The Guardian - UK

Has any club ever played every game in every competition in a season?

Plus: the origins of shithousery; players named after politicians (2); and attacking an opponent with the corner flag

Foreign Affairs

What China Can Learn From German History

Beijing Should Avoid Embracing Russia’s War in Ukraine

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