While the media focus on the withdrawal deal, City lobbyists are working to set the agenda of the future EU-UK trade deal, whilst the public is kept in the dark.
A Ukrainian MP has introduced legislation to criminalise same sex relationships and protect traditional values. RU
As the world’s two largest economies began to impose tit-for-tat tariffs on a range of imports, China hit US soybeans. Since then, Chinese demand for Brazilian soy has spiked. Español
Bullough’s service is to make clear the extent to which our entire financial system has been coopted. He is valiant in exploring alternatives.
In Germany, mobilization has paid off: the destruction of a thousand-year-old forest has been stopped. This success inspires the fight to keep the oil underground in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Español
The poppy hasn't suddenly been co-opted. It's always been a little piece of propaganda.
The ‘deficit’ is unevenly distributed, with investment in R&D, transport and the arts still heavily skewed to the South East. Post-Brexit, is it time for a change?
It is all too easy to throw up one’s hands in despair at the advance of the populists. Easy, but wrong.
Given US and Russian presidential capacity for springing surprises, we risk losing the degree of safety we gained with the end of the Cold War and have enjoyed since then.
For over six months, Kyrgyzstan has been mired in a high-level corruption scandal: a disastrous $386 million project to rebuild Bishkek’s Power Plant, funded by Chinese state funds. RU
Прошло больше полугода, как в Кыргызстане начался главный коррупционный скандал. Из-за проваленного проекта реконструкции ТЭЦ Бишкека стоимостью $386 миллионов за решеткой оказались десятки чиновников, включая двух бывших премьер-министров. English
Khmer Rouge mass killings were followed by cynical geopolitics. By the time justice took the stand, was it also impossible?
