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…
If the ceasefire collapses, China has an interest in getting the two sides back to the table, but it would be a difficult task given Tehran's deep mistrust of the US and Israel.
The US-Israeli war against Iran aims to draw in Gulf states, but history has shown that entering wars is far easier than exiting them. Prudence is needed now more than ever.
PA Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin tells Al Majalla that Israel is taking advantage of the fact that the world is distracted by the US-Iran war to create irreversible facts on the ground
Given the effective closure of the Hormuz Strait and Houthi threats to close off the Red Sea, Syria may emerge as a corridor and conduit to bypass these embattled maritime chokepoints
A former army forensics employee who later became known as Caesar tells Al Majalla how he risked his life to expose the torture and killing of countless Syrians in regime prisons