Last night as I was driving back home to see the kids, I turned on Radio 4 to listen to the news. I caught a very amusing snippet of Kenneth Clarke’s speech in the House […]
‘Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience’. […]
Trump is quoted above in The Washington Examiner, defending Friday’s controversial Executive Order on immigration. Indeed, we cannot let this horror continue but whilst Trump defends his decision as something that is ‘working out very […]
“I know you will be the president of America, so can you please save the children and people of Syria? You must do something for the children of Syria because they are like your children […]
One wore a suit and a red tie. He attended the President’s inauguration ceremony on Friday flanked by his glamorous blonde wife, Ivanka. The other, somewhat subdued in navy attire, is featured below, blending into […]
This Saturday just gone, oceans of women across the globe took place in solidarity marches following President Trump’s inauguration on Friday. It was one of the largest political demonstrations in US history with 673 marches […]
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 […]
