The inspiring and very true story written by a colleague of mine, Peter Apps, a columnist for Reuters. I first met him at a talk he gave on the Future of War at Chatham House and he was by far 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 […]
The clock is ticking on Angela Merkel as she struggles to negotiate a coalition and form a government. Germany has been without a formal governing body since September. TIMELINE OF POLITICAL EVENTS FROM ELECTION DAY […]
Where is Liberia? Liberia is located on the West African coast and in 1821 was founded and controlled by the United States creating a colony for former African-American slaves. Who were the colonists? After the […]
How did we get here? The last parliamentary election in 2013 resulted in a coalition between the Social Democrats (SPO) and the centre-right People’s Party (OVP). This was nothing new, the so-called ‘Grand Coalition’ have […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
