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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