On Tuesday Economist Simon Wren-Lewis retweeted a post from the Stumbling and Mumbling blog, written by Chris Dillow, entitled ‘The BBC’s Bias Against Understanding’. The blog post tackles the broadcaster’s ‘preference for reporting splits and divisions […]
The Trump administration decided this week to impose sanctions on Turkey, one of their NATO allies. This is the first time, ever, that the US has hit one of its NATO allies with sanctions. The […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
In the burrows of the Nightmare Where Justice naked is; Time watches from the shadow And coughs when you would kiss. WH Auden, ‘As I walked out one Evening’ As I was driving […]
In the image above, a resident and a cat are evacuated from the Taplow Tower residential block as a precautionary measure following concerns over the type of cladding used on the outside of the building on […]
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 […]
As I was looking at the Atlantic’s newsfeed last night in bed, I suddenly burst out laughing. They had published something from BuzzFeed about the resignation of Trump’s Communications Director, Mike Dubke, which was formally […]
Incumbent Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani (68) has won a second term as Iran’s President in yesterday’s election. He was announced as the winner early this morning on Iran’s state television. The Presidential elections in Iran […]
‘Under the Macron doctrine, old parties must not just be beaten, they must be destroyed’ Politico, 17.5.17 The Restructuring Plan Macron campaigned on ‘a promise to erase the right-left political divide and needs to weaken […]
