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Vladimir Putin's enablers are complicit in this war
The New Statesman· 7 days agoVladimir Putin’s apologists like to reduce his war on Ukraine to bloodless geopolitical terms. “This all comes down to Nato expansion,” they will argue....
‘Turkish troops fired on our hotel, the invasion had begun’: 50 years after Cyprus was torn apart
The Guardian· 2 days ago“Greetings Greek Cypriots,” he began. Fifty years ago this month, Athens’s military junta, a colonels’ cabal bent on the union with Cyprus they called enosis, briefly believed that, after three ...
‘She wants to get on with her life’: Victoria Starmer intends to do things differently
The Guardian· 3 days agoLast Saturday morning, less than 24 hours after he and his wife, Victoria, walked along Downing Street and into their new life, Keir Starmer held a rare weekend cabinet meeting ...
How Labour can make government work better
The New Statesman· 5 days agoOne of the new Labour government’s greatest challenges will be expanding the capacity of the British state. Government is not war but, with 13 years in...
Coming Home by Brittney Griner review – from hoop dreams to a living hell
The Guardian· 2 days agoThe text messages that open Brittney Griner’s memoir are a chilling short story. The date was 17 February 2022 and Griner, one of the best basketball players in the world, was at a Moscow airport ...