When Orson Welles presented his masterpiece ‘Citizen Kane’ in cinemas in 1941, world journalism was at the height of its influence[1]. Despite the fact that the world’s population still lives in depressing literacy conditions, at least one in ten citizens buys a daily newspaper every day, and
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Phosphorescent beaches that glow in the dark. The first open-air ski slope in the Arabian Gulf. Billions of trees planted in a country dominated by desert. Trains that levitate. The highest rate of starred restaurants per inhabitant. Flying taxis powered by drones. An artificial moon. A car-free,
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There is an old Kurdish saying, which in one sentence tells a truth so great as to be unbearable: ‘the Kurds have no friends but their mountains’. And the milestones of their history, marked by the betrayals they have suffered, stand there sadly to prove it. The
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In the future, when historians and sociologists write about the defunct American experiment, they will have to see that, despite the rhetoric about freedom and equality, this immense country is a cesspool of racism, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, religious fundamentalism, anti-scientific obscurantism, ignorance and – above all –
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The invasion of Ukraine horrifies us. Because, like the war in the former Yugoslavia, it is so close: people fleeing and hiding in our regions; petrol and food costs skyrocketing; our armies mobilising. Putin horrifies us, because he is ready for anything: even a thermonuclear war that
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A few months ago we wrote about the riots in KwaZulu-Natal, and how these were the way in which former President Zuma and his accomplices (part of the Zulu monarchy, the iNgonyama Trust, the ANC and, above all, local organised crime) were preparing to give South Africa’s
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Castles and lighthouses in the sunset, pure romance: Jersey is an island off the coast of Normandy, at the exit of the English Channel, half the size of Elba Island. A wad of flat green meadows, disputed for centuries between French and English aristocrats, and then attaining
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He pays himself a trip as an astronaut, builds electric cars, competes with NASA to conquer space, wants to connect computers directly to our brains, buys Twitter to become the world’s most influential politician, and then has second thoughts because his partners get nervous and threaten to
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, overwhelmed by scandals, was finally abandoned by his party colleagues and, for several days, desperately tried to save his political career by refusing to resign as head of government. His argument: the votes for his party would be his personal votes –
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Has the time come, at last, for a united Ireland? The day after the vote that changes everything, hundreds of rain-soaked people, in silence, their faces bowed to the ground, but this time full of the sunshine of joy, greet the grave of Bobby Sands[1] , who
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