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April & May 2019: Cultural pitfalls of Brexit

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Mark English asks if Britain’s linguistic incompetence has distorted relations with the EU

Italian deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini speaks to workers on the TAV high speed train link between Italy and France

Brunello Rosa on how the rise of populists could reshape Europe

Donald Trump smiles in welcome to Vladimir Putin in Paris

Trump may want to get pally, but Putin will stick to his guns, warns Konstantin von Eggert

Matthew Goodwin considers what the future holds for a divided country that is all at sea

Marie Le Conte on the clash of political styles that has stymied Brexit negotiations

Schoolgirl’s lone protest sparks a global rising

For some observers, Brexit is the biggest political crisis since 1688, when England had to import a king from Holland. That is not going to happen again – the monarchy is a rare element of the constitution that is still functioning.

Articles

FBI Director Mueller Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee

Mueller investigation ends without a conclusion, argues Jacob Parakilas

Rustam Anshba on a breakaway state whose people are trapped

Jon Swain on the photographers who risk their lives to capture the horrors of battle

Alex Nice on three books that undermine the ‘grand strategist’ image

As The Capital suggests, you can’t make a Silk Road from a sow’s ear

Stephen Wall on an enjoyable satire of Brussels bureaucracy

The author of Under Red Skies speaks to Agnes Frimston about being a second daughter under China’s one-child policy and what Brexit looks like from the East

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Catherine Fieschi charts the rise of the Lega’s Matteo Salvini

Myths and fairy tales from a violent past

A mother and daughter on the Kingsmead Estate, in Homerton, northeast London

Claire Armitstead on the challenges encountered in Babel-on-Thames

From the archive: In the August/September 2000 issue, Linda Melvern examined how badly informed decisions and a lack of transparency in the UN Security Council condemned almost a million people to death in the Rwandan genocide.