Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom’s scruffy, grandiloquent, and often bumbling new prime minister, has worked hard to fashion himself afterWinston Churchill. In his speeches, Johnson often channels…
Though Boris Johnson has achieved his premiership ambitions, his time in office will not be a walk in the park. He is expected to take the UK out of the European Union by October 31, which gives him…
The moment that many have either eagerly waited for, or greatly dreaded has finally come. Boris Johnson has become the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, having won the Conservative leadership…
Perhaps the reason we’re no longer able to see into the future like the great writers of the twentieth century, is that we’re in our own version of what they predicted.
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The two remaining contenders to replace Theresa May as Conservative party leader and, by extension, British prime minister - Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt - must now prove that they can succeed where…
The first round of votes among Tory MPs has recently taken place on June 13, and candidates with fewer than 17 votes have been eliminated from the race. As such Andrea Leadsom (11 votes), Mark Harper…
On May 24, 2019, British Prime Minister Theresa May finally announced her intention to resign from her post on June 7, paving the way for a Conservative leadership contest which will produce a new…
Since Theresa May announced that she will stand down as prime minister on June 7, Conservative MPS have been throwing their hats into the ring to become the next party leader.As many as 15…
If Brexit had gone as scheduled, the United Kingdom would have been out of the European Union by March 29 of this year and Brits would have lived through the first two months out of the EU…
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