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'I Am Not Who You Think I Am'

Shaun Walker | Guardian | 10th April 2025

Strange-but-true Cold War thriller. At the age of 16, Peter Herrmann's father Rudi told him that his entire life was a lie. Both his parents were a type of covert KGB agent known as an "illegal". Their life as a "model Canadian family" had been painstakingly constructed so that they could eventually penetrate US government circles. When that didn't work, Rudi recruited his teenage son to take up the mission (6,200 words)

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Another Country

Aurelien | Trying To Understand The World | 9th April 2025

On the problem of feelings vs facts in political discussion, especially when it comes to matters of national loyalty and patriotism. "I probably wasted years of my life under the delusion that people could be convinced by rational argument. Having changed my opinions a number of times in my life on the basis of new information or better arguments, I naively supposed that everybody did the same" (5,500 words)