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On the first day of his second term as US president, Donald Trump described Gaza as a ‘phenomenal location on the sea’. Living in a tent close to the beach in southern Gaza, my …

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The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain and Their Many Enemies by Andy Beckett. Allen Lane, 540 pp., £30, May, 978 0 241 39422 9

The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege by Simon Parkin. Sceptre, 360 pp., £25, November 2024, 978 1 3997 1455 6

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P oor Don. He thought it would be an easy golf-cart ride back to the White House, rolling over the recumbent body of Sleepy Joe. Then the Dems pulled a switcheroo and suddenly he was …