Will Putin stay in power after 2024?
Vladimir Putin will likely keep affecting Russian political life after 2024 when his presidential term ends. The government commission in Moscow is working on constitutional reform that the...
Category: Politics
Moving beyond xenophobia: The cost of being Venezuelan abroad (part one)
This is the first in a two-part series. The second part can be found here. Venezuela has gone from being a country that received immigrants to being a leading actor in the largest Latin American...
Brexit: a failure in the art of human imagination
As this article goes live, the United Kingdom has withdrawn from the European Union. The Brexiteers, led by Nigel Farage and co, seem to be preparing a massive party to mark the moment. While I do...
Why the Labour Party really needs a woman as leader
Last week, Jess Phillips withdrew from the race for the new Labour leader, but she left behind a number of other women in the running, including Lisa Nandy, Emily Thornberry, and Rebecca Long-Bailey....
Russia blackmails Belarus, capitulates to Ukraine
Ukraine, which is de facto at war with Russia, got a five-year gas transit contract with Russian energy giant Gazprom, and will likely get a 25 percent discount for direct supplies of Russian natural...
The unauthorized and illegitimate appropriation of Kellogg’s in Venezuela
Around the world, some products are illegally created as copies of others to take advantage of their image, but the Venezuelan government has gone much further. After Kellogg's announced in 2018 that...
The Whitewashing of Mayor Pete
Let me begin by stating the obvious. For the majority of his life, US presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg passed as a straight white male. This is how others viewed him, and thus treated him...
Unprecedented pressure on the NHS as we head into 2020
2019 was the year in which members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) went on strike for the first time in its 103-year history. More than 15,000 nurses in Northern Ireland took to the picket...
The 2010s: the decade that destroyed Syria
Throughout the 2010s, the Syrian Arab Republic was ripped apart by a vicious civil conflict that killed at least half-a-million people, displaced and made refugees of millions more and led to the...
If you are disappointed with the election result, there are things you can do to help you move on
Andre Spicer, City, University of London On the morning after every election, millions of people whose side has lost start the day feeling down. And so it was for Labour supporters after the 2019...