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Into the Abyss

In the landscape of contemporary European politics, our rulers seem increasingly intent on walking us towards catastrophe — an ‘eyes wide shut’ approach that badly misremembers the cautionary tales of the twentieth century.

A collage of Donald Trump, Keir Starmer and Hillary Clinton all blindfolded

(Illustration by Ricardo Santos)

I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said either.’ While Donald Trump often reached for sleepy metaphors to make hay of his opponent’s incognition, the question of whether Joe Biden was really awake in the dwindling days of his presidency is surely […]

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