By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
When I first began visiting West Germany in the early 1980s, I was startled by the contrast between Birmingham, where I went to school,… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
“Comey had turned away from his upbringing and embraced various kinds of evangelism. He wrote his thesis on how the evangelist teacher Jerry Falwell somehow embodied the teachings of Reinhold Niebuhr. Niebuhr was America’s greatest mid-twentieth-century theologian. His work Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics, published in 1932, is a classic of Christian thinking. Niebuhr’s… — Luke Harding Copy Share
Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
“The oversight mechanism in the US may have been broken, but in Russia it didn’t exist.” — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work. — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
“Given Germany’s totalitarian backstory – the Nazis then communists – it was hardly surprising that Snowden’s revelations caused outrage. In fact, a newish noun was used to capture German indignation at US spying: der Shitstorm. The Anglicism entered the German dictionary Duden in July 2013, as the NSA affair blew around the world. Der Shitstorm refers to widespread and vociferous… — Luke Harding Copy Share
“Snowden was horrified to discover that behind bars he would have no access to a computer.” — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
“The US’s main clandestine objective in Mexico was to keep tabs on the country’s drug cartels. A” — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
On 30 June 2010, the FSB broke into my office again. They unplugged the Internet, opened the window and left the phone off the… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G.… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
Germany's hierarchical reverence for seniority may have something to do with the fact that everything here happens relatively late. Germans start school at six,… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
Taking your clothes off in front of strangers is something of a hobby in Germany, among both men and women, especially in the former… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
