Risky rides in 2016
Four powerful and troublesome heads of state to
have ‘major international implications’:
The biggest crises of the last 12 months are only
going to get worse. That’s according to a forecast by the globe’s
leading political risk researchers. Following a year which saw two
sets of attacks on Paris, the Nepal earthquake,
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The widely committed journalistic sin
When I was young, my friends and I would support
our more improbable factual claims by following them with the words
“ask anyone.” One of us would make a preposterous statement,
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Loathe thy neighbour
Politics is local but most problems are
international. That is the fundamental problem for national
governments caught between the twin forces of globalization and
voters’ anger. The European refugee crisis, for example, seems to
cry out for a continent-wide solution.
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