Werner’s Magenbrot is soft, beautifully glazed and thoroughly inconvenient to complain about. It tastes wonderful. But buying it at the supermarket has quietly removed something I remember from childhood: the wait for the fair. Apparently, I have reached the age where easy access to good gingerbread counts as a disappointment.
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The Lords of War should not hold the Fire Extinguisher
The UN Security Council was built to keep the great powers inside the system. Today, its veto often shields them from the very rules they claim to defend. When permanent members can block accountability for aggression, law becomes theatre and peace becomes hereditary privilege. This article argues for a Council of Equals: not to replace the UN, but to rescue its Charter from the permanent exceptions that now hold it hostage.
