The collapse of the Italian government was anything but unexpected. Ever since the demagogic League (Salvini’s Party) and the populist Five Stars Movement (5SM) signed…
The collapse of the Italian government was anything but unexpected. Ever since the demagogic League (Salvini’s Party) and the populist Five Stars Movement (5SM) signed…
Democracy is not about winning. It’s about accepting that, sometimes, you lose the argument.
In the US, as elsewhere, there is an incipient movement to reduce single use plastics. Plastic straws, which are handed out with every drink one…
In Prelude to War, the first part of Frank Capra’s 1942 Why We Fight film series, the narrator John Huston explains to his American audience the…
At the G-7 Biarritz Summit (24-26 August ), Emmanuel Macron demonstrated diplomatic mastery. Created by President Giscard d’Estaing in 1975, this economic club of the…
Every year, October 31 in celebrated as Reformation Day and, in its time, it was as politically important to the future of Europe as Brexit Day. For…
As far as it goes, there is nothing to disagree with in Tim Cowen’s Radix pamphlet: Freedom to choose: Why competition policy affects us all,…
France and Britain must preserve their strategic partnership in spite of Brexit.
I never have had much time for superheroes. Entire stories and worlds in which women barely feature, apart from as occasional love-interests, always read like…
This post was first published on the New Weather website… Earlier this month, Indian government ended the devolved powers arrangement they had with Indian-administered Kashmir. As I…
On 25 March 2015, Saudi Arabia, leading a coalition of about ten Sunni Arab countries, launched a major military operation in Yemen to restore President…
“If I hear Brexit one more time, I’m going to scream.’ These are the words that seem to be on almost everyone’s lips and it…