Marco Rubio views 1945 as a defeat for the West, wants to revise the post-war order, while German ministers lead the standing ovation. SEVIM DAGDELEN reports
From Berlin, Germany's militarist build-up looks frightening
VICTOR GROSSMAN believes peace in Ukraine needs to come before anything else and abhors the EU's insane drive to keep the war going on
OMINOUS SIGNS: Friedrich Merz, middle of front row, last Tuesday, during a debate and vote in the Bundestag about relaxing the country's debt rules and change constitution
JENNY KASSMAN documents the state-sponsored and ever more brutal and ruthless moves to ethnically cleanse the West Bank
The newly elected general secretary of the Aslef train drivers’ union speaks to Ben Chacko about union wins, a welcome shift in approach to the rail sector and what still needs to be done
CHRIS NINEHAM, who along with Ben Jamal, is one of the activists facing trial over a Gaza demo last year, talks to Ben Chacko about the state’s increasing use of force against peaceful protest, and the significance of increasing imperial aggression around the globe
Higher growth removes the risks of being swamped by debt and interest payments and should be the way forward for British economy, argues DIANE ABBOTT
While advocating the aubergine or eggplant’s case for a space on your windowsill or patio, MAT COWARD suggest prayers might be required too
SOME world events can look different to those of us in Berlin. God knows, here too I’m frightened at what Trump, Vance and Musk are doing and planning. Nor do I love Putin. But what I hate above all else is war, which is looks — and is closer over here.
I’m not a total pacifist, I see the need to fight back against Francos and against Hitlers. And yet I must always rejoice whenever slaughter and destruction can be stopped! Right now that means that I am hoping — yes, damn near praying — for a ceasefire and a negotiated end to the Ukraine war.
I can well understand the feelings of many patriotic Ukrainians on fighting back. And I can empathise with Americans and all the others who were appalled at the conduct of that dangerous clown Trump and his sidekick at their meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, a meeting which looked carefully prepared.
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