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’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 […]
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 […]
‘This was a system designed and constructed by the Americans, and now the Americans are dismantling it’. Norbert Rottgen, Chairman of Germany’s Bundestag International Affairs Committee, on Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the […]
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 […]
Earlier in the week, Gideon Rachman in the FT said that politics is ‘no longer between left and right – but between nationalist and internationalist’. The world is going to be watching France over the […]
At 5pm on Tuesday evening, after three days of debate and knowing it would mean a constitutional fight with Westminster, Scottish MSPs in Holyrood voted 69 to 59 for Nicola Sturgeon’s proposal for a second […]
Wilders above left, Rutte above right. Some nice little quotes to start off with from the existing Prime Minister Prime Minister Mark Rutte, quoted in the Washington Post earlier today: ‘You could say these are the […]
