Concerns are growing in the UK as tech billionaire Elon Musk takes an increasingly close interest in Britain’s political scene, appearing to cosy up to hard-right firebrand lawmaker Nigel Farage.…
THE Jan 1 inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was an orderly affair, even though his predecessor wasn’t there to perform the customary task of handing over the presidential…
Liz Truss came to 10 Downing Street vowing to be a “disruptor”. She U-turned on almost everything else, but that was one promise the convention-shredding Conservative leader delivered in full.…
In the backdrop of growing political unrest last month, on April 8, the then prime minister Imran Khan in his last address on national TV proclaimed that reserved seats are…
There are two themes that have taken centre stage in the run-up to the first round of the French presidential election. One is a naked nationalism and the fear of…
Visiting my Syrian family, who I co-sponsored with nine other families in early 2017 and helped them settle in Canada, is always fun. I get to indulge in some shockingly…
Despite gains in European elections, far-right nationalists and eurosceptics are disunited and will have difficulty in mounting a coherent anti-EU opposition over the next five years, analysts say. Between them,…
There is something that ties together nationalist leaders the world over: from US President Donald Trump to the new Italian interior minister, Matteo Salvini, from India’s PM Narendra Modi to…
Like millions of other Americans, I was shocked, but perhaps not entirely surprised, by Donald Trump’s victory on election night. His blatant racism and misogyny, cynical exploitation of economic populism,…
Brexit has remained the major news item since the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union (EU) on 23 June posing not only an existential threat to the union…
