During my time in Calais, I have been horrified by the lack of media attention to blatant human rights breaches only 22 miles from Kent. People who have run away from almost certain death in the belief that they will be safe and valued in Europe have instead been met with tear gas and beatings. […]
The Transatlantic Trade deal, which would remove custom duties and harmonise international regulations and standards between the US and EU, has suffered a setback, after US senators have voted against giving President Barack Obama the authority to negotiate the deal on their behalf. In order to fasttrack the deal, Obama had hoped to pass a […]
The basics Today, May 7th, British voters will be heading to the ballot box to determine who will govern the United Kingdom for the next five years, thanks to the Fixed Term Parliaments Act of 2011. So who will come out on top? Polls are running tight, and the night, frankly, could go many ways. The Conservatives […]
What more could a chancellor have wanted on the eve of an election? No wonder George Osborne looked so pleased when he trucked along to Ealing Studios on Monday to reveal the next Star Wars would be filmed in Britain. For this dream announcement allowed him to announce the creation of another 3,000 jobs, underlining […]
With fundamentally important elections for Greece on the horizon, everyone from the Greeks to the Germans must work out where they stand on the issue of “Grexit” (the potential departure of Greece from the Eurozone). The subject has become a contentious issue once again, in light of indications from the polls that radical left wing […]
What? In 2011, the Swiss Central Bank placed a cap of 1.20 Swiss francs per euro in order to prevent the appreciation of the currency and protect Swiss exports. Today, the bank abandoned its peg to the euro in a shock move, despite SNB president Thomas Jordan promising ” to defend [the peg] with utmost […]
Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa may have suffered a surprise defeat last week at the hands of his former ally Maithripala Sirisena, but there is no doubt that the economy flourished under his control. Despite being beset by constant national, environmental, political and social disasters over the past half century, Sri Lanka has proved to […]
