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THE French Community, created by General de Gaulle in full agreement with Africa's true representatives, is one of the greatest achievements of our time. Besides being a masterly concept to which I and with me the majority of the leaders of Senegal are deeply committed, it also is one of those ideas capable of catching the imagination of the masses. Sweeping away the contradictions of the colonial system, it enables the former mother country and its erstwhile colonies to form a friendly cul...

An overview of how Russia approaches war, and then a discussion of why Pavlovka matters in the Ukraine campaign.

Wilhelm Hollitscher was the model for Hugo Dachinger’s painting on a copy of  The Times in 1940. Image: National Museums Liverpool INTERNMENT during the Second World War saw thousands of people rounded up and locked behind eight-metre-high barbed wire fences – an indiscriminate action of blanket arrests based on a person’s origin rather than action. One man interned was a refugee from the Nazis, Wilhelm Hollitscher – and during confinement, he kept a detailed diary. The discovery of th...