5 things about this week (11 april 2019)

Those I met in my door-knocking days included Peter Hitchens (very polite to me), sci-fi writer Brian Aldiss (“I’ll vote for you over the bloody socialists”), Claus Moser, Lady (Isaiah) Berlin (she wished me luck), David Marquand (once my boss), and Anne Diamond (met her kids, never her). ..

who is hassan omar al-bashir?

his government signed deal to end that conflict in 2005, another one was breaking out at the time - in the region of Darfur, where President Bashir is accused of organising war crimes and crimes against humanity by ICC.. ..

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trump escalates war on states' environmental powers with order to spur

Trump signed order on Wednesday designed to limit the in which blue states such as New York can reject pipeline projects using authority granted to states Section 401 of Clean Water Act. ..

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