‘When I talk with young activists from Hong Kong, they are increasingly demoralised. They have taken to the streets to call for their democratic rights but have been met with repression; repression facilitated by colonial […]
The governments of Greece and (the former Yugoslav Republic of) Macedonia have at last reached agreement on their long-running dispute about the latter country’s name. There was a constructive meeting earlier in the year between […]
Today, the on-again, off-again summit between the erratic premiers of the USA and North Korea finally took place. The scene was set on Singapore’s Sentosa island as the star-spangled banner hung next to the Ramhongsaek Konghwagukgi. […]
The Group of 7 met this weekend for their annual summit in Quebec. It will have been hard to miss. Global leaders had managed, over the course of the weekend, to come up with wording […]
Why has there been a change of Prime Minister in Spain? The new Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, who had previously been leader of the largest opposition party, was sworn in by the King […]
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 […]
This week we are running a series on the Local Authority Elections in England. The aim of this series is to explain how the local elections work, look at where the elections are taking place, […]
This week we are running a series on the Local Authority Elections in England. The aim of this series is to explain how the local elections work, look at where the elections are taking place, […]
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 […]
