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History of the Present (fortnight to 18 March 2023)

German Bundestag debates what I really said. (Might I be permitted to add a word…?)

Last Thursday (16 March) I had the curious experience of watching the German parliament debate what I had really said. Chancellor Olaf Scholz opened his statement in advance of the next European Council meeting in Brussel…

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