Theme: Global affairs

Total Results: 1060


November 7, 2019

Ban the bomb? The world’s moved on, Mr Gorbachev The former Soviet leader is decades out of date about the real threats to world peace

Mary Dejevsky

Wednesday
06.11

06.11

It wasn’t the Berlin Wall that divided Germany Today the former East is rallying to a new Right-wing populism, but divisions between the two halves are much older than Communism

James Hawes

Wednesday
16.10

16.10

Will Spain be held together by force? Madrid's brutal response to Catalan separatists is typical of a country forged by violence

Jason Webster

Friday
11.10

11.10

Who is Abiy Ahmed? Ethiopia's young leader has taken home the Nobel Peace Prize

Christopher Rhodes

Thursday
10.10

10.10

Macron’s Brexit plan The French president wants the UK out of the EU, but he also wants a deal. Can he use his position as Europe's kingmaker to get one?

John Lichfield

Wednesday
09.10

09.10

What if Germany’s economy toppled? Germany has an unusually big manufacturing sector, but in a world of technological change that leaves the country vulnerable to disruption

Peter Franklin

Tuesday
01.10

01.10

Why the UK can’t walk away from Hong Kong The former colonial power has a legal and moral responsibility to help bring about a solution to the crisis

Evan Fowler

01.10

Drinking in the madness of social media The pompous asses who populate our public discourse could be straight from a 17th-century coffee house

Gareth Roberts

Monday
30.09

30.09

How to be a responsible globalist Immigration isn't only about economics — so we need to reframe the debate

Hassan Damluji

Friday
20.09

20.09

Have we forgotten Syria? This intimate account of life during the war serves as a reminder that the appalling conflict continues to corrode nations and destroy lives

Ian Birrell

Tuesday
17.09

17.09

The history Putin doesn’t want you to hear The 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland is still a touchstone issue – as the case of a Russian blogger found guilty of “rehabilitating Nazism” shows.

Roger Moorhouse

Friday
06.09

06.09

How did Mugabe get away with it? There's one terrible fact that sums up the tyrant's wickedness

Douglas Murray