‘If Eris, the Greek goddess of strife, symbolises the electoral climate in the UK, US and France these days, Harmonia, her antagonist in Greek mythology, must be watching over Berlin’. Josef Janning for CFR Finally […]
Angola, a former Portuguese colony, is on the west coast of Africa: below the Congo (formerly Belgian) and above Namibia (formerly German). Angola was colonised by the Portuguese in 1575 and was big in the […]
Pictured above: Current President and leader of the MPLA, Jose Eduardo dos Santos (on the left), welcomes his candidate for Angola’s new President: Joao Lourenco (on the right). On Wednesday this week, elections took place […]
‘I have decided that I will send back to Sejm (lower house of parliament), which means I will veto the bill, on the Supreme Court, as well as the one about the National Council of […]
‘I’m not a spokesperson for the L.G.B.T. community. I don’t want to be branded as a gay minister, just as my colleagues don’t want to be primarily defined as being straight. All I want is […]
Last week, Chinese President Xi Jinping was visiting Hong Kong on the 20th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong (a former British colony), to Chinese rule in 1997. It was the first time that the Chinese […]
In the image above, you see a rather perplexed looking Francois Bayrou (MoDem), Jean-Yves Le Drian (Socialist) and Marielle de Sarnez (MoDem), all leaving the Elysee Palace this morning. Both Bayrou and de Sarnez have […]
‘The French electorate has been more extreme than any other. It managed to eradicate virtually the entire political establishment in a short sequence of elections’. Wolfgang Munchau, The Financial Times, Monday 19th June 2017 Vox […]
On 5th June, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt all broke diplomatic ties with Qatar. In the image above, you can see the Saudi Arabian king sitting on the right and […]
Macedonia. Probably a country you’ve never really paid any attention to. It used to be part of the former country of Yugoslavia until it seceded peacefully in 1991 after the fall of communism. That same […]
