With Trump’s inauguration officially beginning his first term as President, many of his first actions in the new role have sparked controversy on a global scale. However, the potential threat […]
Category: World
The Middle East: a Brexit solution?
“Your security is our security.” This wasn’t our new Foreign Secretary attempting to woo EU officials into giving Britain a favourable deal on exit from the EU, however. This was Boris […]
Why are we so heartless about refugees?
There are 21.3 million refugees and 65.3 million people worldwide who have been displaced by force from their homes. Every day, shocking statistics such as these scream at us from bold type headlines and […]
How did Trump win?
The UK went to sleep late on November 8th expecting to see the USA with it’s first female president in the morning. The New York Times had her at an 80% chance […]
China vs US: the new scramble for Africa
Nearly one hundred years ago in one of the most obvious displays of imperialism in human history, the European great powers conquered and enticed the continent of Africa into its […]
Colombia’s big referendum: time for peace?
While Britain has just come out of what many were calling a “generation-defining” referendum, the people of Colombia are about to vote on something much bigger than EU membership. Colombians […]
Zambian 2016 election: a British perspective
The UK is currently experiencing one of the biggest political shocks of a generation. Indeed, unless you were living under a rock for the past month, it is […]
Three killed in Bangladesh
This week three people were brutally killed in Bangladesh. Over these last few years, terror attacks have become commonplace in this South Asian country, yet UK media have rarely given […]
China censors homosexuality and other “unhealthy” content on television
The Chinese state has censored televised depictions of homosexuality and of other “abnormal” activities as part of several reforms to its broadcasting. In the light of several conservative reforms to Chinese […]
The Middle East: is there a way forward?
At the time of writing, France is sending the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (above), the French flagship and the largest Western European warship, to the Middle East to join Russia’s bombing campaign. […]