Whoever wins the presidential election yesterday, the Americans will deal with Iran, the flagship country of the Shiite world. For it is not only their…
Whoever wins the presidential election yesterday, the Americans will deal with Iran, the flagship country of the Shiite world. For it is not only their…
As we deliberate over our ballot decisions today, one choice should be easy: Ask whether any candidate favors giving away taxpayer money to attract global…
I normally find myself in agreement with the NHS blogger Roy Lilley and last week – or perhaps it was last month – I especially…
This post first appeared on the Politika website… In the place of the cancelled second debate between the two rivals for US President, there were…
This week, for reasons I won’t go into, I have had to travel to the US. I have to say that I did so with…
An old friend of mine from school (thanks, Pete!) sent me last week a long and sophisticated post about one of the great conspiracy theories…
In the UK, Liberal Democrats still complain (not that anyone is listening), that they were treated unfairly by the electorate for their u-turn over tuition…
The American presidency that is coming to an end has undeniably weakened the transatlantic link that has bonded the United States and the great democracies…
Xi Jinping, president for life of the People’s Republic of China, is a strategist. He acts with a long time horizon. His supreme goal is…
For the third time in a little over a century, we have officials and politicians reassuing us that “it will all be over by Christmas”….
In this issue of our Globalisation Outlook we examine: Has China become trapped in the usual authoritarian cycle of aggression and paranoia from which it…
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a scathing statement on June 6, in response to Beijing’s exploitation of the tragic death of black man…