As of yesterday’s election in France, Benoit Hamon (49), former junior finance minister in Hollande’s government from 2012-2014, has emerged as the favourite to take on the role of representing the French Socialist Party as their […]
French Presidential Elections: First Round April 2017; Second Round May 2017 How does the French Presidential Election work? http://www.rogerdarlington.me.uk/Frenchpoliticalsystem.html Centre Right Republican Party Candidate: Francois Fillon. (This party was formerly headed by Nicolas Sarkozy, French President who […]
Whilst reading an article in today’s FT on the possible future relationship between Trump and Putin, I also encountered an article beneath on the little known (to those in the western hemisphere at least) Igor […]
‘We should not retreat into the harbour whenever we encounter a storm or we will never reach the opposite shore’. Quoted in the FT, Wednesday 18th January 2017. Chinese president taking an alternative stance to […]
It cannot escape the deductive powers of the female eye that three of the guys above are pretty hot, for politicians; yet it is the other one who who holds the most cards and is likely […]
It has come as no surprise to me that May, along with her advisers, has come to the decision to invoke Article 50 before the end of March next year. Let us not forget that […]
The following are links to a report I prepared for some students aged 15-18 in a UK based school. The first is the report, clearly set out with headings, trying to take into account all […]
Abdelwahab Elmessiri was one of Egypt’s most famous thinkers and scholars. He graduated from Alexandria University in 1959 with a degree in English Literature and went on to study an MA in English and Comparative […]
‘The present and the past are perhaps both present in the future and the future is contained in the past”. TS Eliot was an American born poet who moved to the UK in 1914, age […]
This morning before I left the house, I watched news of another hospital being damaged in rocket strikes in Syria and I saw images of children who had been injured as a result. It saddened […]
