Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Saturday, July 25, 2026

Neal Ascherson on Berlin in the second world war

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Embed from Getty Images Neil Ascherson writes about Berlin in the current issue of the London Review of Books : Berlin is a strange, parven...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

In the Britain of 1940 cars were deadlier than German bombs

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Embed from Getty Images Here's a remarkable quotation from a judge that I found in the  Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette (24 ...
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Monday, July 20, 2026

Kevin Keegan: The humble superstar of the Seventies

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Embed from Getty Images Kevin Keegan made his debut for Scunthorpe United at the age of 17 and played for them for three seasons in the old ...
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

"His glamour tarnished, his boorishness came to notice": On being the monarch's second son

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Embed from Getty Images Being the second son of a monarch is a difficult career, because you cease to be of use to the family firm – assumin...
Saturday, June 27, 2026

The Joy of Six 1539

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Roz Savage says our electoral system is not just unfair but dangerous: "Manifestos are written for floating voters in constituencies t...
Saturday, March 07, 2026

A German bombing raid on Dublin in May 1941 killed 28 people

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Embed from Getty Images Here's bit of history I didn't know. The caption for this photograph on Getty Images says: Emergency service...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

The Joy of Six 1475

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Degenerate Art  on Donald Trump's concentration camps and what can be done to resist their building: "When you consider the number ...
Friday, January 23, 2026

The Joy of Six 1465

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"The evidence shows that when local people are involved in welcoming newcomers – helping to secure housing, navigate services, and buil...
Friday, December 26, 2025

The Joy of Six 1454

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"At its core, A Christmas Carol is the transformation of a man without empathy, to a man with empathy. It accomplishes this through for...
Monday, October 06, 2025

Neal Ascheron on Frederick the Great and the draining of the Oderbruch

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One of my favourite writers is Neal Ascherson. Among many other achievements, it was he, and not Tony Benn, who came up with the well-known ...
Friday, August 22, 2025

The Joy of Six 1399

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Rei Takver reports on fears that Labour’s new data access law would allow a future Reform UK government to replicate an Elon Musk-style DOG...
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Sunday, August 17, 2025

Hitler and Mussolini both claimed to have killed Nessie

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The Loch Ness monster became a popular newspaper story in the 1930s. The result of this was that, in an attempt to undermine British morale...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Book Review... How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev

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This review appears in the new issue of Liberator. You can download it free of charge from the magazine's website. How to Win an Inform...
Saturday, July 05, 2025

The Joy of Six 1381

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"Any real 'change' promised in Labour’s manifesto has been betrayed by a continuity with tired and damaging tropes of deserving...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

The Joy of Six 1372

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"What's happening in Gaza is a humanitarian and existential tragedy for the people living there, a moral and political disaster for...
Monday, May 05, 2025

The Joy of Six 1355

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"It needs to restore its reputation for economic credibility, which means that it cannot deny the damage done by Brexit – and support m...
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Monday, April 28, 2025

The Joy of Six 1352

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"He inherited an economy from Wilson suffering from low growth and high inflation which threatened to destroy all Callaghan and his par...
Monday, February 10, 2025

The Joy of Six 1323

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Hannah Forsyth surveys the history of the commercialisation of higher education and concludes: "Universities need to be democratic in ...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Not everyone who disagrees with you is a Nazi

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Then again... I love this: you hardly need to ask for subtitles. German satire could be the trend of 2025. 
Friday, December 20, 2024

The comforting lie de Gaulle told France after the second world war

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This blog's hero Neal Ascherson has a piece in the new London Review of Books. It's a review of Julian Jackson's France on Tria...