With his crazy hair, cloned dogs named after famous economists, and a penchant for wielding a chainsaw on the TV, Argentina’s President-Elect Javier Milei is certainly an unconventional politician. It’s not just his personality that has raised a few eyebrows either. His policies have caused a great deal of controversy, not least his plan to […]
Is Britain about to lose one of its 14 remaining Overseas Territories? For the past 12 months, London has been engaged in talks over the future of the Chagos Archipelago – a contested island group in the central Indian Ocean, regarded by most of the international community as part of Mauritius but governed from Whitehall […]
The new Foreign Secretary has been quick to reassert his presence on the world stage, glad-handing President Zelenskyy in Kyiv and addressing dignitaries at a global summit in London. But while Ukraine and the Middles East are likely to dominate his in-tray, there is a conflict over a British territory that he should not neglect. […]
Britain is back. That is what many international diplomats and commentators have been saying since the UK left the EU. With the appointment of a heavy hitter as Foreign Secretary, they have finally started to return to the international scene that they abdicated when the UK retreated into the EU. Since leaving the EU, the […]
Australia’s conservative opposition has every right to celebrate the resounding defeat of the Albanese government’s proposals for an indigenous ‘Voice’ at Saturday’s referendum. Unfortunately for the opposition, however, thwarting one of the Government’s signature policy initiatives is unlikely to turn around its struggling fortunes. Holding a referendum on creating an indigenous advisory body was one […]
Each generation of Parliamentarians will have crises they need to confront. The current Parliament has arguably faced one of the most challenging international environments in recent memory with Covid, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and now the Israel-Palestine conflict. But when MPs enter Parliament, with the exception of a few, none will have ever considered […]
The world has just witnessed the worst attack on Jewish people since the Holocaust. Yet amid the international condemnation of Hamas terrorists, there has also been equivocation – and even celebration in some quarters. No other conflict stirs emotions like that between Israel and palestine – so why is it that the world’s only Jewish […]
The Times Radio journalist stumbled as she pondered the right way to describe Hamas operatives who had slaughtered 250 teenagers at a rave, kidnapped grandparents with dementia and slaughtered entire families. Finally Chloe Tilley came up with ‘bravery’ before marvelling at the ‘incredible ability’ of Hamas to ‘go for Israel in such a way that […]
What’s happening to global Britain? Last month it was revealed that the fast-track Global Talent Visa, launched in 2021 to bring the best and the brightest to the UK, has received three applications in two years. The aim of the scheme was to enable the world’s career leaders to come and work in the UK. […]
Peace in the Middle East, and throughout the Arab World, has always been hard-won. We’ve had to measure its progress in small, deliberate steps – whether that’s from letters to handshakes, missions to embassies or treaties to trade deals. And stability in the Middle East and the wider region is beneficial to the UK as […]
Though boasting Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria is in the midst of a security and economic crisis that threatens to turn it from a failing into a failed state. Successive governments have failed in their most fundamental duty to keep their people safe, leaving them at the mercy of a litany of hostile actors, from transnational […]
Today, many people – wrongly – associate Sweden with the term ‘democratic socialism’. But the ‘socialist’ period in Sweden did not last very long, roughly from 1970 to 1990. The period before that, from 1870 to 1970, was characterised by ‘decentralisation and limited government’ and during these years, Sweden had one of the least regulated […]
He used to be knows as G.O.M, or Grand Old Man, to his supporters (God’s Only Mistake to his critics). But the descendants of the great liberal reformer, William Gladstone, have reserved quite different language for another of their ancestors. Charlie Gladstone has described William’s father John as ‘vile’, ‘greedy’ and ‘domineering’ in an interview […]
‘You know what happens when politicians get into Number 10’ Sir Humphrey Appleby remarks to his counterpart in Yes Prime Minister. ‘They want to take their place on the world stage.’ ‘People on stages are called actors’ comes the reply. ‘All they are required to do is look plausible, stay sober, and say the lines […]
There is a quote often attributed to the leader of the Russian Revolution Vladimir Ilyich Lenin which goes. ‘There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.’ Following that logic, 2022 feels as though it lasted a century – as the UK contended with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, political instability at […]
. . Baroness Dambisa Moyo is a seriously impressive woman. She’s worked at the World Bank and Goldman Sachs analysing global economic trends, and sat on the boards of numerous FTSE100 companies including Barclays and Chevron. She’s also the author of five books including best-sellers Dead Aid – a critique of development policy in Africa […]
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