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European democracies are running out of time to turn away from the abyss | Rafael Behr (opens the original)
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Far-right parties, Maga ideology and Kremlin money are conniving to suffocate liberal idealism for another generation Not all that long ago, Europe was a beacon of liberal idealism. One memoir recalls it as an era “comfortably saturated with confidence in the unfailing and binding power of tolerance and conciliation”. The economic system seemed obviously preferable to barbarous alternatives. “People honestly believed that the divergencies and the boundaries between nations and sects would gradua
Burnhamâs ambitious plans need room to breathe â and Westminster suffocates change | Rafael Behr (opens the original)
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A summer on the road suited the prime ministerâs open style, but now the walls of conventional politics are closing in Nothing stays fresh for long in parliament and no one sounds normal. The air, thick with convention, suffocates originality, tuning every voice to the same Westminster pitch. The need to escape that climate is one reason why Andy Burnham quit his Commons seat to run for mayor of Greater Manchester. Or that is how he tells the story. Returning after nearly a decade away, the pr
With no friends left to burn, Trump is running out of diplomatic ammunition | Rafael Behr (opens the original)
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Everyone can see that the Iran war has been a strategic disaster for the US, while a failing president pretends he is winning Now is the twilight of Donald Trump’s supremacy. The US is still the richest and most heavily armed nation on Earth. That status is secure. The current president, contemptuous of law and indulged in lawlessness by a supine Congress, enjoys even greater power than the constitution allows. With those advantages it takes a special talent for incompetence to look as thwarted
Nigel Farage looks trapped and rattled - now the nationalist tide can be turned | Rafael Behr (opens the original)
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There are more votes in tolerance and decency than in toxic division. It doesnât take a great leap of political courage to fight back against Reform Nigel Farage can be confident of victory against a man posing as an ennobled space traveller with a dustbin on his head. At least, in Clacton he can. The refusal of major parties to contest this weekâs byelection sets the bar low. But even if the competition were more serious than Count Binface, the Reform UK leader would be the favourite to win
Democracy is at stake when foolish humans bet on machines being intelligent | Rafael Behr (opens the original)
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We need an enlightened US president to make the case for global AI regulation. Donald Trump is the exact opposite of what is needed When I am woken by the sound of my dog whining, I understand that she is hungry and wants me to get up. When my alarm clock goes off, I don’t consider its needs. It is following an instruction to rouse me at a certain time but it doesn’t care if I stay in bed. It doesn’t try to get me up by other means. The dog, on the other hand, will go to plan B. She barks. This
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