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How government can learn from disasters

11 May 2020 10:17 pm

Soon enough, Congress will hold hearings to investigate the federal response to the Wuhan virus pandemic. It is almost a…

The undiscovered country: ‘Germany? Where is it?’, asked Goethe and Schiller in a collaborative poem. ‘I don’t know where to find such a place.’ Above: ‘Goethe in the Roman Campagna’, 1787, by Johann Tischbein, currently on show at the British Museum

German history is uniquely awful: that’s what makes it so engrossing

13 December 2014 9:00 am

As I grew up half German in England in the 1970s, my German heritage was confined to the few curios…

Once Scotland votes, it's England's turn for a constitutional crisis

14 June 2014 8:00 am

Before David Cameron heads off for his summer holiday, he’ll be presented with a first draft of the Tory manifesto…