The opposition could have toppled PM Boris Johnson when he was the head of a minority government. The opposition could have...

For me, the best classical music recording of the past two years is Daniil Trifonov’s Destination Rachmaninov — ...

People make mistakes. Intelligent people learn from their mistakes. Stupid people make the same mistakes again and again. The...

If you don’t vote, don’t complain afterwards! Vote tactical and wherever it makes sense Lib Dem. The Lib Dems stand...

After roughly 14 months in office, the rhetorically embarassing first female leader of the German Social-Democrats (SPD), Andrea...

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should have been forced out of office a long time ago. Over his many years in...

With the crucial help of the former president Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner (*1953) as his vice-presidential...

The career of my favorite (classical music) singer Philippe Jaroussky is already spanning twenty years. The French countertenor...

On October 6, 2019 some 9.34 million registered Portugese voters were asked to elect their new parliament. Voter turnout reached...

On October 2, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson finally presented his first draw of a Brexit deal. Today, he defended his plan in...

Today, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave a funny, but thin speech at the Conservatives conference in Manchester. He...

The newly designed Hélène Darroze at The Connaught restaurant opened today (October 1, 2019). The space was re-imagined space...

The new Italian government has been sworn in today by President Mattarella. The old is also the new prime minister: Giuseppe...

A few minutes ago, the government of Boris Johnson was defeated. The House of Commons voted 328 to 301 to take control of the...

With today’s defection of the Tory MP Phillip Lee to the Liberal Democrats, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has no...

In the 2019 Brandenburg state election, the coalition of SPD and The Left was voted out, the populist, right-wing AfD is on the...

On Sunday, September 1, in the regional election in Saxony, the coalition of CDU and SPD lost the majority. 66.6% of the 3.287568...

In 2003, I first heard Christian Thielemann live conducting Wagner during his term as Generalmusikdirektor at Deutsche Oper...

A book review of Colin Imber’s third edition of The Ottoman Empire (Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr) has first to note that this book was first published in 2002 and...

Dear Republicans, what has happened to the party of free trade and fiscal discipline? Where are the Tea Party people? Trump might...