In James Politi’s article for the Financial Times, he delves into the reasoning behind the Five Star Movement and League party’s backing of a little-known university academic to be the country’s new prime minister: namely that […]
With a US decision on the continuation of the Iran Nuclear Deal 12th May 2018 imminent, Macron and Merkel fly out to the US this week to convince Trump to remain. Many people think that […]
January 2002 The famous Bush State of the Union address in which Bush refers to Iran, Iraq and North Korea as an ‘axis of evil’. August 2002 A leak of information by an Iranian opposition […]
‘It’s one thing to read a policy that explains general practices. It is very different seeing your own data and being able to control it’. Rob Sherman, deputy chief privacy officer for Facebook, quoted in […]
Yesterday, Monday 26th March 2018, was the first day of a three day election poll for Egypt’s presidency. The incumbent president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi only has one opponent: Moussa Mostafa Moussa. He is not very […]
Former Russian spy turned M16 spy, Sergei Skripal (66) and his daughter, Yulia (33) are still in hospital in Salisbury. Both were poisoned on 4th March 2018 by a military grade nerve agent from a […]
Measuring political change in Italy is complicated. Some things that are consistent in Britain and Germany change frequently in Italy. For instance, even the main political parties – never mind the fringes and protest parties […]
The Italian elections on Sunday 4th March 2018 had the lowest turnout in Italian post war history with 72 per cent of the population taking part. In 2013, this was 75.2% and in 2008, 80.5%. […]
Renaming an airport On 24 January 2018 Prime Minister Zoran Zaev of Macedonia announced that the country’s main airport would be renamed. Such decisions only rarely have international implications, but the move took place after […]
The Winter Olympics usually come second in popularity to the summer version of the competition. But this year has seen the games in the spotlight for very different reasons. After months of tension between the […]
