I was in the US the week of the mid-term elections and it was interesting to watch the campaigning, listen to radio and TV ads,…
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I was in the US the week of the mid-term elections and it was interesting to watch the campaigning, listen to radio and TV ads,…
In the space of three weeks, France has given the world two quite different views of its famous Arc de Triomphe. On November 11, in…
“Queue-jumping”, “swamped” by migrants, caravans of migrants threatening to invade. The anti-migrant rhetoric especially of the far right, currently in the ascendancy across the UK,…
On Sunday, November 25, a conflict that was thought to be frozen suddenly came to life. A tug and two small patrol boats from the…
The Iranian population is out of luck. In the presidential elections of 2013, then those of 2017, they had declared themselves ready for the opening…
I am sure that Mr Rees-Mogg’s expensive education has given him a mastery of Shakespeare. But just in case, he may want to re-read this…
The beginning of November witnessed two annual commemorations in the UK. As ever, “remember, remember the 5th of November” gave rise to bonfires and fireworks…
On landing on French soil Friday, November 9, 2018, Donald Trump tweeted little for his host: “French President Macron has just suggested that Europe develops…
This post is taken from the introduction to Richard Black’s new book Denied, published today… This is the story of a coup-d’état that failed. A…
Article Two of the UN Convention on Genocide, in December 1948, defined genocide as “any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy,…
Strongmen rule – Erdogan, Trump, Bolsonaro, Putin, Savini. Where Liberal Democracy and the ‘bourgeois parties’ fail to present their electorates with a strong, credible leader,…
Theresa May has been compared to Elizabeth the First. Early in her tenure, Jacob Rees-Mogg lauded her as Gloriana – astride the domestic political scene,…