Grace Braddock

Aug 21, 2023 | newstatesman.com | Grace Braddock |Katie Stallard |Megan Gibson

After spending several days reporting from Pokrovsk, a small city in eastern Ukraine and the recent target of two missile strikes, Katie Stallard details the devastating impact of Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine’s civilians. “The first strike hit just as people were at home, making dinner, coming home from a long day at work. The first strike hit and the emergency services responded then 37 minutes later, the second strike hit.

Aug 18, 2023 | newstatesman.com | Grace Braddock |Jeremy Cliffe |Chris Stone

What if the rush to war in 1914 had been averted? What if the Berlin Crisis of 1961 had led to nuclear war? What if the liberal revolution of 1848 had been successful? A new exhibition in Berlin considers a series of momentous what-ifs, an intriguing addition to the canon of counterfactual history.