‘All the Lonely People’, an article published in 2018 in The Economist, highlighted the financial implications of loneliness. What was perhaps most striking about the article was its stressing of…

Back in the days of our imperial splendour, Prime Minister Palmerston summed up British foreign policy as well as anyone. “We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual…

Many world changing journeys have started from Greenwich in London, a place dissected by and home to the Meridian Line at 0 degrees longitude, the centre of world time (GMT),…

The 1993 Oslo Accords, signed by Israel and the PLO, created international abnormalities because, although they made the Palestinian Authority a recognized state authority, its leaders did everything possible to…

The United Kingdom has (finally) left the European Union, the union flag has been taken down and UK MEPs have packed their bags, said ‘au revoir’ to Brussels and hopped…

I had a quick look through Hansard and discovered that I first started speaking on this subject 20 years ago in a debate on the persecution of Christians in Egypt.…

(Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Fratelli d’Italia) Ever since the elections in March 2018, almost all Italian parties have contradicted the platforms they stood on and the values they meant…

On October 28th, 2019, Jair Bolsonaro won the Brazilian Presidential elections with 55% of the valid votes, 10 million more than his opponent, Fernando Haddad of the Brazilian Labor Party…