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Jon Snow is not the only one in Brazil this week. While he is there exploring Brazil’s response to climate change, Middle Eastern leaders have also been flying in for some high profile visits. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva – Lula to you and I – has been hosting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in…
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This weekend in our village in the country we buried Nicko Henderson – Sir Nicholas Henderson, formerly HM ambassador to Warsaw, Bonn, Paris and Washington. The little Saxon church – one of only 20 buildings in the hamlet in which we each had homes – seats perhaps 45 people. We got more than a hundred…
I read an account in The Observer on Sunday by my Newsnight colleague Mark Urban who set out in pursuit of his great-uncle’s war grave in Gaza. (He’s got a piece on this on his programme tonight, but I don’t know how my editor will take to me flagging this up.) The reason this particularly…