Tuesday, 31 December 2019

US uses the big stick in Iraq with diplomatically disastrous consequences

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The US has held back and held back and held back when provoked by Iran: not launching retaliatory strikes when Iran shot down a hugely expen...
Monday, 30 December 2019

Is it time for rapprochement with Vladimir Putin?

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Donald Trump has either a year left in office or five years. Either way, there has got to be a better chance of improving relations between ...
Sunday, 29 December 2019

2019 was a bad year for EU Remainers, Theresa May and Prince Andrew

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In the last 12 months nothing has gone right for a lot of high-profile people. It has been a year to look back on with relief that it's ...
Saturday, 28 December 2019

This has been the year of protest

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The vegetable stallholder who set himself alight in Tunisia in December 2010 in protest at police harrassment indirectly led to an extraordi...
Friday, 27 December 2019

Could the next US vice president be a big deal?

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The role of vice president in the United States is not normally of major historic importance. Probably only one has had a great impact in re...
Thursday, 26 December 2019

2020 is the year for climate change action

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If President Trump is reelected in November 2020 which still seems the most likely outcome, any momentum for climate-change action will vani...
Tuesday, 24 December 2019

The death of a Green Beret in Afghanistan

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While the world seems to have turned topsy-turvy in 2019, the war in Afghanistan has just ploughed on, taking lives. The latest American sol...