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Sep 8, 2026
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Jul 7, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Michael Schmidt

    BIG READ | Justice eludes victims’ families over 1993 Highgate Hotel attack (opens the original)

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    At 10.05pm that Saturday night, the three bars at the Highgate Hotel in East London were pumping when two men wearing balaclavas, their faces blackened with camouflage grease, walked in and began indiscriminately gunning down patrons with AK47s. Four men were killed in a hail of bullets in the women’s bar: Stanley Hacking, 65, Douglas Gates, 56, Royce Wheeler, 46, and Deon Harris, 26. A wounded Deric Whitfield, 42, managed to crawl from the public bar to the parking lot where he died; seven more

  2. Article · Aug 11, 2026 · Michael Schmidt

    BIG READ | A (long) tale of two Chinas (opens the original)

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    Deep in the remoteness of the Taklamakan Desert in central Asia lies a fleet of models of US Navy warships that are being used as target practice by Chinese hypersonic anti-ship and ballistic missiles in threatened preparation for an invasion of China’s estranged twin, Taiwan, a war that would be likely to draw in the US and its allies, Japan and Australia. Chinese troops have also stormed mock-ups in the desert of the government precinct in downtown Taipei. But the question, as always in the sm

  3. Article · Jul 7, 2026 · Michael Schmidt

    BIG READ | Happy 250th birthday to the world’s most admired and despised country (opens the original)

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    All countries have founding myths, but the one established around the hyperpower later called the United States of America is strangely 13 years off from the date that was celebrated with much hubris and some introspection this July 4 as the nation’s supposed 250th anniversary. World famous though it is, the Declaration of Independence, largely penned by slave-owner Thomas Jefferson and formally adopted by the illegal Continental Congress in 1776 (the same year as Adam Smith’s capitalist manifes

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