One could write an entire book about the new Netanyahu cabinet. Here just a few remarks. The result of the 2022 Israeli Knesset...

The full transcript / full text of the address by Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy / Zelensky delivered in a joint session of...

Donald Trump tried to overturn the result of a free and fair election. For that alone he should be behind bars, of either a prison or a mental institution. In addition, on December 6, 2022...

The British Guardian newspaper reported that protestors had gathered outside Kasra hospital, where Mahsa Amini had been pronounced dead on September 16, 2022. This marks the start of the...

Below you can find the Autumn Statement, the Chancellor of the Exchequer policy paper, published on November 17, 2022 (full text,...

Ron DeSantis (*1978), the Governor of the State of Florida, looks like the big winner of the 2022 midterm elections. One key to...

On April 6, 2022 the Knesset member Idit Silman (*1980) left the ruling coalition majority for religion-related decisions and actions by the government. As a consequence, then Prime...

You (rightly) thought with Rishi Sunak that Liz Truss and her followers in the UK had presented a plan which could be described...

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Liz Truss, after a meeting with the 1922 Committee Chairman Sir Graham Brady, announced...

When Liz Truss became the Conservatives party leader we described her financial program as “voodoo economics” (lower taxes while increasing spending). The markets quickly came...

In the Italian parliamentary election of September 25, 2022 voter turnout was 63.9% (-9% in comparison with 2018). The so-called...

As all major polls predicted, the clear majority of the 172,437 members of the Conservative Party chose the UK’s Foreign...

President Ranil Wickremesinghe (*1949) appointed Dinesh Gunawardena (*1949) as the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka and presented...

Today, July 20, 2022 the Sri Lankan Parliament elected Ranil Wickremesinghe (*1949) as President of the Democratic Socialist...

A sigh of relief in Westminster: Boris Johnson resigns. Wednesday evening, the prime minister was still resolved to fight on and sacked Michael Gove. But Gove was not alone to tell the...

[Added at 17:58 Swiss time: Sky News reports that senior Tory members, including the brand new cabinet member Nadhim Zahawi, will...

After the First Opium War from 1839 to 1842, Hong Kong became a British colony. Other nearby territories changed hands after the Second Opium War in 1860. In 1898, the British Empire forced...

France’s 577 members of the National Assembly (Lower House) are elected in a two-round system with a run-off election if no...

Already in January 2022, Boris Johnson’s days at Number 10 seemed numbered. He survived, notably because of Putin‘s...

The economist Razeen Sally noted in his book Return To Sri Lanka that, in the 2015 election, the minorities – Tamils, Muslims...