Economic disaster may or may not be around the corner, but Brexit has already produced irreversible political reformation and disintegration which will not go away whether or not Britain is inside or outside the EU
Is the rise of Boris Johnson to be the next prime minister the product of a soft coup?
Sanctions will fail against Assad, just as they failed against Saddam Hussein 20 years ago, but they will do terrible damage to ordinary people
President Trumpās last-minute change of mind over launching US airstrikes against Iran shows that a military conflict of some description in theĀ Gulf…
Well, heās not Mussolini or Hitler just yet ā but heās not far off
The US feels enraged by any revelation of what it really knows, by any alternative source of information. Such threats to its control of the news agenda must be suppressed where possible
The Wall Street Crash in 1929 exposed the fragility and rottenness of much in the United States. Brexit may do the same in Britain
The Cambridge slavery inquiry will show we have plenty to feel guilty for
Two very different political waves are sweeping through the Middle East and north Africa
The fear is that they are too stupid to care
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