In 2009, as then British Prime MinisterGordon Brownwas preparing to visit PresidentBarack Obamain theWhite Housefor the first time, his aides devoted long strategy sessions to the nature of the…
BREXIT AND THE BRITISH HEALTH SECTOR
After a storm of recent developments in the Brexit arena, a no-deal scenario continues to be a potential outcome of the Brexit debate. While Johnson and the EU…
As world leaders gathered this week in New York for the 74th UN General Assembly, trouble was brewing back in Washington and London for both Trump and Johnson, respectively. Britain’s Supreme Court…
Despite all its shortcomings, Brexit has some redeeming factors. For one thing, it has highlighted how disenfranchised the country’s voter base feels. It also gave smaller parties and independents a…
Boris Johnson has racked up a new record by losing yet another major vote in parliament on Monday evening, over his second bid to dissolve parliament and hold an early general election on October 15…
The drama continues to unfold in Britain’s greatest ever reality show. Last week Boris Johnson, aka “Britain Trump”, kept audiences around the globe glued to their television sets as the Queen…
The past two weeks have been some of the most tumultuous weeks for Brexit after British Prime Minister, Boris, Johnson, made the decision to suspend Parliament for a month starting next week - a move…
In the wake of the Brexit crisis, the idea of a unitedIrelandhas returned to the political agenda. Politicians in both parts of a divided country believe that Irish unity is a credible prospect over…
On August 28, the Queen approved Boris Johnson’s request to “prorogue,” or suspend, parliament just days after it returns from summer recess next week, leaving MPs with just the time between 2…
Brexituncertainty hangs like a cloud over Britain’s workforce and has brought us nightmarish new headlines from the business world on almost weekly bases. Britain’s decision to leave the bloc has…
Beijing would like the week to mark a historic turning point in which a unipolar world finally gave way to multipolarity. To others, it was just tub-thumping bravura. In reality, it was a bit of both.
The country now sits at an energy crossroads: will its recovery be anchored in oil and gas, or will it seize the chance to lean into renewables and build something more resilient?
After Israel dealt Iran and its regional axis a string of crippling blows last year, Lebanon now finds itself better-positioned to reclaim its eroded state sovereignty. Will it grab the chance?
Recent books from Yemen, Egypt, and Syria take a new look at the 10th-century philosopher's famed letter 'The Epistle of Forgiveness', which is said to have inspired Dante's 'Divine Comedy'
An earthquake in Afghanistan earlier this week levelled entire villages and left people trapped under rubble for days, but in the shadow of the Hindu Kush, saviours were thin on the ground