When an exiled South African journalist reluctantly explained the Nazi Holocaust to his seven-year-old son, the boy knew that no adult in Germany could have legitimately claimed “we did not know”.

Two slogans defined politics in 2024. Sir Keir Starmer offered “Change” while Donald Trump promised to “Make America Great Again”. Both yielded electoral triumphs. Yet while in the US, Maga captured ...

As we mark the anniversary of the second genocide of the 1990s, we should recognise that we will never be able to say ‘we did ...