At one of my family gatherings over Christmas, I found myself arguing a somewhat radical position about what is likely to happen to the shape…
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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…
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…
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,…
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…
This article by Joe Zammit-Lucia was first published by City AM on 12 December 2018 It’s like a giant jigsaw puzzle where, however hard you…
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…
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…
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,…