Andrew Stuttaford

I have never believed that woke is dead, but if it did die, it is coming back from the dead in an appropriate fashion, sometimes anyway.

I wrote yesterday about the removal of an ancient Egyptian mummy (and various other mummified bits and pieces) from public view at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow , Scotland.

There was a series of shootings on Friday in Trappes, France. One person was murdered and five others injured, including a twelve-year-old girl, who was hit eight times and is in a serious but reportedly stable condition.

Take care before judging a book by its subtitle. Those expecting The Visionaries , a new work by the British historian James Holland, to contain a detailed exposition of the 1944 conference in Bretton Woods that led to the formation of the IMF and the initial phase of the World Bank will be disappointed to discover it only takes up a handful of pages. Fans of the Marshall Plan may feel short-changed too. To be sure, Holland describes his book as "a brief overview and an introduction to a pivotal moment in world history," but he waits until his postscript to do so.

Gray-zone warfare does not appear yet to have reached the final frontier, probably because it would be very hard to conceal who was responsible for

In February 2020, the left-wing coalition running Berlin introduced a rent cap. The cap varied with the type of construction, age of the building, and

In September's state elections in Berlin, the previous governing coalition between the center-right CDU and the center-left SPD lost heavily, as did the Greens.

The French Parliament is to vote on November 19 on a proposal by the country's socialist party to grant amnesty to an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 unauthorized immigrants employed in the country.

With numbers so high, it is impossible to come up with a precise figure, but Mao Tse Tung is widely thought to have been responsible for 40-45 million (non-military) deaths during his rule in China.

With offense being taken by Beijing at the reaction by soccer player Kylian Mbappé to a meme depicting Mao (or as, he put it, “a Chinese dictator,”) I thought I'd dust off this article I wrote in 2008.