In a move that was entirely predictable after the UK’s Office of Communications (Ofcom) banned China’s CGTN from operating in the UK, China has reciprocated by banning BBC World News from broadcasting in China. The BBC in its own article titled, “China bans BBC World News from broadcasting,” would claim: China has banned BBC World News from…
We’re coming up to the first anniversary of the UK’s first ever national lockdown, which was only supposed to be a short-term emergency measure. But eleven months on, we’re still in lockdown, with no sign of restrictions ever ending. Consider the parable of the boiling frog. If you want to boil a frog, how would…
Within hours of last week’s Myanmar coup d’etat, the denunciations came pouring in. Britain began considering new sanctions. US president Joe Biden pledged action against the military leaders who had directed the coup, which dislodged Myanmar’s Nobel-prize-winning leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. In London, the British Foreign Office hauled in Myanmar Ambassador U Kyaw Zwar Minn, citing the…
Get your retaliation in first,” is a cynical old saying in Northern Irish politics that means you hit your opponent whenever you can without waiting for a provocation. It neatly captures the violent traditions of the province and explains why the political temperature there is always close to boiling over. Imagine then the pleasure of…
Well wishing and power fantasies cannot topple geopolitical realities and the fact that Washington will simply never let a Texit take place. There is an interesting tendency in American political history that whenever there is some sort of crisis, one answer to it, especially from the Right, is some form of secession. The waves of…
If you think that distrust and mistrust in politicians is going to disappear with the packing cases as Trump leaves the White House you should think again. If you also think that the massive chasm between left and right is going to be packed away with Trump’s trinkets you need to wake up and smell…
