The live broadcast of the humiliation suffered by the President of Ukraine in the Oval Office of the White House is already part of the worst story of the 21st century. The behaviour of Donald Trump and his vice-president, J.D. …
Authoritarianism
Hitler was a communist, Gaza must be ‘cleansed’… Condemn the form, replicate the content. This could be a fundamental maxim of our political times. Perhaps the most fundamental. I don’t think I’m the only one who notices certain similarities …
There is a recurring image that I can’t get out of my head: watching a film set in the Second World War, seeing the horrors of Nazism and hearing my mother ask herself: “How could someone do such a …