#nationalism

#nationalism

Lorna Slater has called on the UK Government to change course on the deposit return scheme (DRS), as she said Scottish ministers will have to assess if they can make it work.Scottish Secretary Alister Jack wrote to the Scottish Government on Friday, granting the exemption to the Internal Market Act needed for the scheme to operate, but said the inclusion of glass could risk a permanent divergence between the UK and Scotland.

The momentous Turkish presidential election, whose second round will take place on Sunday, has more than just geopolitical consequences; it is a watershed for culture as well.Since 2016, after a failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the government here has cracked down on artists, writers, filmmakers and academics, who have experienced censorship, job losses and a climate of fear.

Sinn Fein's council election success was a case of the party turning a nationalist vote into a republican vote, DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said.Sir Jeffrey was speaking as he rejected the suggestion that the results of the local government elections showed any movement towards a united Ireland.

Unionist leaders need to show greater co-operation to maximise success in future elections, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has suggested.Faced with the prospect of Sinn Fein becoming the largest party in councils as well as the Assembly, unionist leaders have also raised concerns about lower numbers of people in unionist areas coming out to vote.

Accusations of downplaying the Holocaust, rants about Black Lives Matter, and strange ruminations on total biomedical self-mastery - the National Conservatism Conference has produced some startling moments.Pitched by the organisers as a venue which could stake out a new direction in British politics the conference attracted Tory party heavyweights.

Prominent public intellectual Douglas Murray is facing criticism over comments he made at the National Conservatism Conference which critics say downplayed the Holocaust and Nazism.Speaking at the conference Murray said: There was nothing wrong with nationalism in Britain.It's just that there was something wrong with nationalism in Germany.

03:30 Pope Francis and Hungary President Katalin Novajk walk past Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban, left, in the square of Sandor Palace in Budapest on Friday, April 28, 2023.Andrew Medichini, AP Pope Francis, starting a trip to Hungary, on Friday pointedly warned of the dangers of rising nationalism in Europe and told the Budapest government that accepting migrants along with the rest of the continent would be a true sign of Christianity.

The pope reiterated his calls for welcoming migrants after a meeting with nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban.He will also lead an open-air mass outside parliament on Sunday.Pope Francis condemned what he described as rising nationalism and "adolescent belligerence" in Europe, in a speech delivered during his 3-day trip to Hungary.

It did not take long for anyone to realise that the Iraq war was the disaster that many had predicted; not much longer than it took to confirm that it was launched on a lie and that there were no weapons of mass destruction.Whatever relief or joy was felt by Iraqis at the fall of Saddam Hussein's violent and oppressive regime, it was soon subsumed by the horror of what followed.

When Alexei Navalny's namesake documentary won an Oscar on Sunday, its victory was hailed by many in the U.S. as a rebuke of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.Indeed, speaking through director Daniel Roher, the Russian opposition leader cited the unjust war of aggression in Ukraine as the reason he is currently in solitary confinement in a Russian prison.

I'm probably in the minority but my baseball viewing time is being spent on Mets Spring Training games, rather than the WBC.As a kid, it was my thought that the Olympics were great - whether that was Olga Korbut in '72, the U.S. Boxing Team in '76 or the U.S. hockey team in '80.But I can't recall the last time I specifically carved out time to watch the Olympics.

Allegations of stock manipulation and accounting fraud from New York-based investor Hindenburg Research against Adani Group are piling pressure on the Indian conglomerate and its 60-year-old founder.Gautam Adani became Asia's richest man last year and was second only to Elon Musk in the world at one point.

Nicola Sturgeon, who stood at the helm of Scotland's government for nearly a decade, rose through her party's ranks to become the most prominent figure in Scottish politics.Ms. Sturgeon, 52, was born in 1970 in the Scottish town of Irvine and went on to study law at the University of Glasgow.She worked as a lawyer in Glasgow before entering the Scottish Parliament as a regional representative in 1999.

There must come a time when the cost of Brexit is recognised by a British government, but that day is not imminent.Even when the economy and migration are two of the most prominent topics of debate, a realistic account of the European dimension to those issues is taboo for Conservatives who still wear their epic policy folly as a badge of honour.

"I have to be very careful about remembering my memories," says Milisuthando Bongela, the introspective director behind the searing, highly personal documentary, "Milisuthando."In Bongela's poignant recollections resides complexity and confusion, layers of trauma connected to accepted doubts and truths about her childhood, country, and home.

Peter Mandelson urged Northern Ireland's cross-community Alliance Party to redesignate as unionists at Stormont in 1999 to facilitate the formation of a powersharing government, declassified papers have revealed.But the party rejected the then secretary of state's suggestion, with one MLA demanding to know if he would ask Sinn Fein to switch from nationalist to unionist.

Meena Kandasamy said she was in shock when she learned in September that she had won PEN Germany's 2022 Hermann Kesten Prize.DW contacted her ahead of the prize ceremony, held on November 15, to discuss her journey as a writer.But the motivations behind her work can't be summarized easily, she says: "I don't know where to start."

A coalition led by Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy is set to form Italy's most radical rightwing government since the end of the second world war after exit polls gave it a clear majority.With full results due on Monday, Meloni is set to become Italy's first female prime minister - and a model for nationalist parties across Europe in one of the European Union's six original member states.The poll, for Italian broadcaster Rai, gave the rightwing coalition 41%-45% against 25.5%-29.5% for the leftwing bloc.

Germany has rebuffed the latest push by Poland's nationalist government for vast reparations over the second world war, saying in response to a diplomatic note that the issue was closed, according to the foreign ministry in Warsaw.Poland estimates its losses in the second world war caused by Germany at 6.2tn zotys (1.2tn) and has demanded reparations, but Berlin has repeatedly said all financial claims related to the war have been settled.

The rapid meltdown of former British Prime Minster Liz Truss, who resigned after only 44 days in office and is being succeeded by former Boris Johnson Treasury chief Rishi Sunak, should alarm Americans.She is the supply-side ghost of Christmas future, a long-distance warning from an ex-empire to an aging superpower.