You don’t have to remember the global role of presidents like Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman, Nixon or Reagan to know that the President of the United…
You don’t have to remember the global role of presidents like Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman, Nixon or Reagan to know that the President of the United…
The Economist is a venerable newspaper. For this blog post, I would like to ask you, the readers, whether I am understanding one of their…
Extending the ULEZ zone in London may have been a key factor in the Conservative win in Uxbridge. It was soon followed by the Prime…
All societies experience threats to their continued well-being, In recent years, we have had the 2008 financial crash, Covid 19 and, of course, global warming….
When the FDIC put Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank into receivership in March, a study reported on the Social Science Research Network found that…
Faced with the growing number of anti-French demonstrations in French-speaking Africa – in the Central African Republic, Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal and now Niger –…
After the tour of Europe and Moscow by Wang Yi, the top Chinese diplomat, the Ukrainian president declared, in his press conference of February 24…
On 17 January 2023, during the Davos economic forum where she had been invited to speak, Olena Zelenska passed on to the Chinese delegation a…
Once again, the media are scaring homeowners with the prospect of falling house prices this spring. I was expecting house prices to fall similarly back…
Dirty times for the three authoritarian regimes that currently govern these three old and great civilizations: Chinese, Russian and Persian. All three are being challenged…