The German SPD Social Democratic party is in deep crisis. A reluctant coalition partner once again with Angela Merkel’s CDU, poll ratings place the SPD…
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This is a very, very strange time for British politics. The Article 50 period runs out in a mere 81 days. Having thought it through,…
Of all the unlikely pieces of news that have belaboured us in recent weeks, the news that Paddy Ashdown has died – with all his…
‘Tis the season to be cheerful. In this, our last communication of the year, we again pick our political word of the year. Tempting though…
Spain is facing a triple crisis that would overwhelm considerably more stable political systems. First, there is a deep unsolved economic and social crisis that…
Jacob Rees-Mogg and Mark Francois could hardly hide their delight. Their attempt to depose Theresa May had of course failed but they had dealt her,…
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. E. F. Schumacher What if there will be no economic growth in future? …
Technocrats, commentators and business people are excellent at laying out what is necessary; what ‘must be done’ in public policy to move forward. Politicians, who…
Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General, was in the spotlight on Monday, in sunny Marrakech. Delegations had arrived from more than 150 countries to endorse a…
I remember as a youngster in Malta when Malta had an utterly pathetic football team, a 4-0 defeat in, say, Germany would be hailed by the…
It occasionally sends a frisson of political fear down the backbone when you hear about a centrist politician like Macron booed in affluent areas of…
Adenauer, Erhard, Kiesinger, Barzel, Kohl, Schäuble, Merkel, Kramp-Karrenbauer. The list of the party chairmen and chairwomen of the Christian Democrats in Germany contains a number…