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    • Saturday, 19 August, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Putin, Pushkin and the decline of the Russian empire

      Behind Ukraine’s rejection of Russia’s revered poet is a much bigger story of imperial decay

      The head of a statue of Pushkin is seen being removed on a snowy city square with a few onlookers in winter clothing
    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
      Demographics and population
      Will the 22ers become a new political generation?

      The war in Ukraine has the potential to define a European cohort but it’s not yet clear whether it will

      Ewan White illustration of a person standing on a ladder in front of a blue wall, pinning yellow stars to it.
    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
      Homelands by Timothy Garton Ash — an illuminating history of Europe

      From the ‘miracle’ of 1989 to the return of state thuggery, readers could hardly wish for a wiser guide to the continent’s triumphs and travails

    • Sunday, 13 November, 2022
      Politics
      Beware the creeping normalisation of the hard right

      Democratic politicians on the centre right should take more care not to adopt the language and behaviour of extremists

      Giorgia Meloni speaking at a podium
    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      Populism in Europe
      For a fascist revival look to Moscow, not Rome

      Some Italians take a lenient view of the Mussolini era, but the real fascists are revealing themselves elsewhere

      Montage of Giorgia Meloni, with Vladimir Putin in the background
    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      UK politics
      Post-Johnson Britain must reset relations with Europe

      The prime minister’s departure offers a political opportunity to rebuild damaged trust

    • Wednesday, 9 February, 2022
      German politics
      Germany is in urgent need of a courageous new Ostpolitik

      Russia and China today pose very different challenges from those faced by Willy Brandt in the 1970s

      Chancellor Willy Brandt kneels before a memorial to the Warsaw ghetto uprising
    • Friday, 28 May, 2021
      Viktor Orbán
      Orban’s visit illustrates UK’s post-Brexit balancing act

      The tension between Britain’s interests and values has become more acute since it left the EU

    • Sunday, 25 October, 2020
      US presidential election 2020
      The world must prepare for a contested US election

      Americans will need the support of other democracies if results are not immediately clear

      Covid-19 has meant that more than half of the electorate is considering voting by post
    • Friday, 11 September, 2020
      Populism
      Hearts don’t beat faster for ‘the rules-based international order’

      To win the fight against populism, we must appeal to the emotions

      Ingram Pinn illustration of Timothy Garton Ash story ‘Hearts don’t beat faster for ‘the rules-based international order’
    • Monday, 13 July, 2020
      Social affairs
      Free speech is about listening as well as talking

      We who warn against ‘no-platforming’ should also heed the concerns of those who do it

      Students campaign for free speech at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. Today's radicals, like those of the 1960s, sometimes express their demands in extreme terms
    • Tuesday, 22 January, 2019
      Technology
      The west needs its own perestroika moment

      A fundamental restructuring is required to reboot democracy for the digital age

      Mikhail S. Gorbachev, widely believed to be the second man in the Soviet hierarchy, pictured at the start of his visit to Britain. Gorbachev, for a one-week visit, was to visit Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at Chequers and Foreign Minister Sir Geoffrey Howe, Dec. 15, 1984 in London, was accompanied by his wife, Raisa. Gorbachev was met on his airport arrival by Bernard Weatherill, Speaker of the House of Commons. (AP Photo)
    • Wednesday, 21 November, 2018
      European Union
      Europe’s crises conceal opportunities to forge another path

      The spectre of disintegration concentrates minds across the continent

      French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stand at attention in the Clairiere of Rethondes, where the armistice was signed in Nov. 11, 1918, during a commemoration ceremony for Armistice Day, 100 years after the end of the First World War, in Compiegne, North of Paris, France, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. (Philippe Wojazer/Pool Photo via AP)
    • Tuesday, 12 December, 2017
      World
      The case for European conservatism above grand designs

      We should work at preserving what we have, rather than dreaming up new projects

      REFILE - UPDATING BYLINE AND IPTC French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech to set out plans for reforming the European Union at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, September 26, 2017. REUTERS/Ludovic Marin/Pool
    • Friday, 17 March, 2017
      Populism
      Broken Europe is down but not out

      Politicians should not blame bad things on Brussels while taking all the credit

      NETHERLANDS - JANUARY 01:  Europa and the bull.  Landscape by Jan Brueghel the Younger. Oil on Oakwood. Around 1621-22.  (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images) [Europa und der Bulle. Landschaft von Jan Brueghel der Juengere. oel auf Eichenholz. Um 1621-22]
    • Friday, 23 December, 2016
      Social Media
      What to do when the ‘truth’ is found to be lies

      There are numerous ways we can combat the post-fact threat in 2017

      Illustration for FTWeekend comment - web edition - issue dated 24.12.16
    • Friday, 10 June, 2016
      Brexit
      Brexit would compound all other European crises

      There is an ever-present possibility of relapsing into barbarism, writes Timothy Garton Ash

      France's far-right National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen addresses supporters in front of a poster depicting Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) and reading "No to Brussels, yes to France" during a May Day rally in Paris on May 1, 2014. AFP PHOTO / KENZO TRIBOUILLARD (Photo credit should read KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP/Getty Images)
    • Friday, 3 June, 2016
      ReviewLife & Arts
      ‘Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World’, by Timothy Garton Ash

      Should concerns over security and social cohesion set limits on free speech?

    • Friday, 18 December, 2015
      Middle Eastern politics & society
      We need to remember the brutal history that created EU

      Forgetful, divided union is marred by flashbacks to 20th-century horrors, says Timothy Garton Ash

      Illustration for FTWeekend comment - issue dated 19.12.15
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