Theme: Global affairs

Total Results: 1060


How long will this last? (Photo by Stefano Guidi/Getty Images)
February 4, 2021

Inside the Zero Covid campaign The urge to eliminate the virus is understandable — but at what cost?

Freddie Sayers

Wednesday
03.02

03.02

Has Macron lost the plot? The pressure of next year's election seems to be skewing the President's political compass

John Lichfield

Tuesday
02.02

02.02

What America can learn from Russia Spiralling addiction, inequality and an oligarch class can pave the way for authoritarianism

Daniel Kalder

Thursday
28.01

28.01

The War on Terror returns home Twenty years of conflict is boomeranging back to an increasingly unstable America

Will Lloyd

Wednesday
27.01

27.01

Is a vaccine trade war brewing? The breakdown of supply chains and squabbles over jab efficacy proves a dangerous combination

Tom Chivers

Tuesday
26.01

26.01

The rise of hip hop politicians A young, African electorate is growing frustrated with corrupt, ageing despots

Daniel Knowles

Monday
25.01

25.01

How China could turn off Britain’s lights Businesses loyal to Beijing are taking over our nuclear power and electricity systems

Clive Hamilton

Monday
18.01

18.01

Trumpism is here to stay Even with the President gone, his shadow will loom large over the Republican Party

Eric Kaufmann

Friday
15.01

15.01

Impeachment is more dangerous than Trump The aftermath of the Capitol 'coup' echoes the post-9/11 era

Michael Tracey

Thursday
14.01

14.01

Bobi Wine and the battle for Uganda Campaigning in a bulletproof vest, he speaks to young Africans' fierce desire for change

Ian Birrell

Monday
11.01

11.01

How Macron made France a laughing stock He's a political novice with no ideas of his own, according to a new biography

John Lewis-Stempel

11.01

Why America is haunted by Ancient Rome Even as the Capitol was seized, historical parallels were being drawn

Tom Holland