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 […]
What happened? The results of the 20th/21st October Czech general election are now in in which the media-savvy billionaire, Andrej Babis, has come out on top. He is a man used to getting his own […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
Oh the more I read the more I laugh. Yesterday’s article in the FT on the forthcoming governer elections in Mexico State leads with the following quote: ‘I’m not going to vote for anyone, they’re […]
Whilst Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn battle it out over here, I am looking further afield where Irish Prime Minister and leader of the ruling political party Fine Gael, announced that he is retiring both as […]
