In the week that the novelist John le Carré won the Olof Palme Award, named after the late Swedish prime minister and diplomat who promoted world peace, I received a letter from Rechtsanwalt Rainer Haas & Kollegen in Berlin. This solicitor’s l...
Continue readingBefore the clock struck midnight, my new year’s resolution was broken. I had banned myself from watching any more World War Two films or series or talks. I’m all Nazied out, to be honest. However, I was doomed even before the roaring 2020s began. ...
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Life is short. That was the first WhatsApp message from a friend that came through when news broke that Kobe Bryant (pictured) and his 13-year-old daughter had died in a helicopter crash. I’m not sure I would have even recognised the NBA megastar ...
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I opened my inbox to find an email from Boris Johnson alerting me to what to expect this week. No wonder I’m suffering from PTSD, post-transition stress disorder, “persistent mental and emotional stress occurring as a result of injury or severe ps...
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From Davos to DC, you can almost hear the silent cursing of presidents and powerbrokers as things go awry: from Donald Trump’s impeachment, to Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s alleged hacking of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, to the paparaz...
Continue readingLondon is hosting its first 2020 UK-African Investment Summit to promote jobs and investment, as the continent’s population should reach two billion in the next thirty years. In an article in Monday’s Guardian the former prime minister, Tony Blair...
Continue readingIt’s no surprise that Time magazine voted the climate activist Greta Thunberg as Person of the Year. She is a prophet of our time of sorts. Devorah Halberstam does not have the same international brand recognition as the young Swede. Still, in 199...
Continue readingTheArtcle.com https://www.thearticle.com/why-meghan-and-harry-could-live-happily-ever-after-in-canada Life in the UK just hasn’t worked out well for Meghan Markle. She has yet to find her feet in her new homeland. Not even with her fairy-tale we...
Continue readingThis is the age of female empowerment. From girl power to women’s rights to women’s rule, the world has woken up to this most fundamental shift. Little by little it is changing almost all societies on earth. Empower women and you empower a nation....
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A recent article in the New York Times posed this question: should we ban the artist Gauguin, whose work is currently on display at the National Gallery in London, because he called his Tahitian subjects “savages”? And because, as Prince Andrew mi...
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