55 m. ago Germany trumpets its reckoning with its Nazi past – except when it’s inconvenient | Hanno Hauenstein

From a media prize with a dubious pedigree to the horrors of Gaza, the establishment forgets and remembers what suits it bestGrowing up in Germany, we were taught to believe we had done better. Better than our grandparents’ generation, who swept their complicity under a thick rug of silence. Better even than our parents, whose revolts in the late 1960s rarely led to any serious reckoning with the legacy of the Holocaust.Born in the late 1980s, my generation learned about Auschwitz early on. We visited former concentration camps and studied the Nazi regime not as an alien aberration, but as a warning: this is how democracies die. Today, with the far-right AfD and ethno-chauvinism on the rise, that warning has never felt more urgent.Hanno Hauenstein is a Berlin-based journalist and author. He worked as a senior editor in Berliner Zeitung’s culture department, specialising in contemporary art and politics Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Drivers may be banned for using phone, even if engine is turned off

Motorists could be hit with a driving ban

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3 h. ago JEREMY HUNT: Liz Truss called me into a boudoir she'd created in No 10 and told me she had to quit. I urged her to go quickly

A message from an unrecognised number jumped out at me from my phone: ' Liz Truss here. Please can you give me a call.' Was the Prime Minister really trying to contact me? Surely not.

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8 h. ago Colorado couple found guilty over cross burning meant to draw sympathy for Black candidate

A jury in Colorado has found that a couple who burned a cross to generate sympathy for a Black mayoral candidate is guilty of conveying false information about a threat

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9 h. ago JOHN MURDOCH'S DRIVE TIME: We take a look at the new Lexus flagship and KMG Rexton commercial

The eighth generation Lexus model is packed with advanced features and will be available as a hybrid and fully electric car when it arrives next year.

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12 h. ago Carlo Ancelotti on possible Real Madrid return as Italian departs Spanish giants

The former Bayern Munich, AC Milan and Chelsea boss is one of the greatest football mangers of his generation

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13 h. ago 'You stole my childhood' Prolific sex offender left young boys 'broken' and 'terrified'

Yossa Maunders, 51, treated the two male victims in a 'depraved' way

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13 h. ago Strictly's Ellie Simmonds told 'all I could see was your disability' in heartbreaking call

In a new ITV documentary, Ellie Simmonds: Should I Have Children?, the former Paralympian swimming champion has a tear-jerking phone call with her birth mum

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13 h. ago Former LA Deputy Mayor of Public Safety reaches plea deal over threats to blow up city hall for Israel support

Brian Williams, 31, was in a meeting when he used the Google Voice application on his personal cell phone to make the threat, officials say

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14 h. ago Family farm inheritance tax changes slammed as "disastrous" by Perth and Kinross councillor

Bailie Claire McLaren said generational family farming businesses in Perth and Kinross - and across Scotland - were "reeling from this ill-informed tax"

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14 h. ago Greggs outlet creating eight jobs is planned for Perth's Broxden Services

The proposed Greggs bakery is expected to generate four full- and four part-time jobs, recruited locally.

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14 h. ago In Ukraine, I saw Trump’s ‘peace deal’ wouldn’t just trade away land – but lives, memories and homes | Timothy Garton Ash

Ukrainians I met in Kyiv and Lviv were grimly realistic about the end of the war. We should follow their exampleThe next time a breathless news anchor talks about the prospect of a war-ending “deal”, with Ukraine “ceding land for peace”, I want to sit them down with Adeline. In Lviv last week, Adeline showed me on her phone map her lost home in Russian-occupied Nova Kakhovka, just across the Dnipro River from the Ukrainian-liberated territory around Kherson. Look, she said, with tears welling up in her eyes, here on this satellite snapshot you can see the ecological disaster that followed Russia’s destruction of the Kakhovka dam in 2023. And here’s the place where she dreamed of setting up a small art gallery. “Why should I give up on my home?” she cried. Why indeed.The territory occupied by Russia is the size of Portugal and Slovenia combined. It’s difficult to get accurate figures, but perhaps some 5 million people live there, while at least another 2 million refugees from those t...

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15 h. ago Ancelotti speaks out on his future ahead of Real Madrid departure

The former Bayern Munich, AC Milan and Chelsea boss is one of the greatest football mangers of his generation

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16 h. ago The phone habit that helps you instantly spot a narcissist, according to psychologist

Psychologists have warned that excessive use of this common phone habit is a tell-tale sign of a narcissist.

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17 h. ago Lanarkshire dance school celebrating 20 years in business picks up top gong

Starlight Dance has nurtured the talents of generations of children in East Kilbride.

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17 h. ago Terrified passengers film plane’s engine cover breaking apart mid

This is the moment terrified passengers watched on as a plane's engine cover broke apart mid-air.

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21 h. ago Expert says one phone setting protects children better than any app

Steven Gannon says the setting on iPhone and Android phones will help keep your children safe online

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21 h. ago Loose Women 'in chaos as stars doing the show through gritted teeth' as 'terrified' presenters face pay cut

Some of the stars are believed to be 'furious' and 'insulted' over the shake-up, and are already fearing inevitable job losses.

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21 h. ago Period tracking apps 'outraged' at new police guidance to search women's phones if they miscarry

Leaders of period tracking apps Flo and Clue have shared their thoughts on the new guidance allowing police to seize a woman's phone and check their period tracking app if she miscarries

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22 h. ago ‘Ludicrous and unfair’: older workers react to pressure to delay retirement

IMF is urging countries globally to act to ease stress on public finances, sparking mainly outrage but also supportAs French workers stage yet another public show of discontent about president Emmanuel Macron’s raising of the state pension age from 62 to 64, the International Monetary Fund has urged governments to encourage fit, older workers to delay retirement.Its recommendation is that people of the baby boomer generation should stay in work for longer to help balance public finances amid fiscal pressures caused by an ageing global population. Continue reading...

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