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This week the European Union finally introduced new sanctions against the Chinese government over their treatment of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang. The deployment of new Magnitsky style targeted sanctions…

Bayes’ theorem is a bit too complicated to be thoroughly explained here, but fundamentally it is a calculation of the probability of an event, based on prior knowledge of conditions…

Feminism was born in the 18th century as a sign of protest against the exclusion of women from citizenship. By that time, the founding ideas of a new social and political…

At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Meeting of Heads of State and Government in London in December 2019, Alliance leaders asked the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to undertake…

Spain’s unemployment number has passed a horrific new milestone. At the start of the month, Spain created a new piece of unwanted history. With 4,008,789 unemployed it is the worst…

The starting gun has now been officially fired on setting up a “Conference on the Future of Europe”. Or rather, to set up the opening phase of a second one.…

There has been some controversy about the appointment of Lord Frost as our ongoing Brexit tsar with cabinet responsibility, whipped up, in the words of that classic movie Casablanca, by…

The word euthanasia derives from the Greek words “eu” (good, true) and “thanatos” (death), which literally means “good death”, without suffering. Only a deeply insensitive person does not feel compassion…

Across the UK, anticipation is rising for the definite end of the Covid lockdowns. At the start of the week schools all over England re-opened their gates for the first…

For the longest time, the European Union has tried to project itself as a player on the global stage. Successive EU Commission and Council Presidents have been invited to major…