Europe

The conservative movement has a long history in Italy, with many changes over time. Nowadays, the most well-known conservative politicians are Matteo Salvini, Giorgia Meloni and Silvio Berlusconi, with their…

A recently conducted study in N. Macedonia by the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) suggested that “85% of young people think that the country needs a leader with a firm…

Ireland’s recent general election was historic, and the ramifications will echo around the world. The two main features of this election demonstrate an irrevocable change to the Irish political landscape;…

‘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 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…

Shortly before Christmas, The Economist published an article titled ‘The liberalisation of Ireland: How Ireland stopped being one of the most devout, socially conservative places in Europe.’ The piece provided…