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Yes, it looks like a foregone conclusion. Chancellor Angela Merkel, the centre-right candidate — with an emphasis on centre — is comfortably ahead in the polls with six days to go in one of the most boring German elections anyone can remember. No won...

When a bomb exploded on a London Underground train yesterday morning, Donald Trump was quick to put the incident to his own political use. “Another attack in London by a loser terrorist,” he said on Twitter. He continued: “Must be proactive! The trav...

Aside from putting the world on notice that ocean warming and climate change dramatically have altered our ecosystem, Hurricane Irma put on display the true nature of the wealth of nations. The southern portion of the United States was severely hit b...

I got into politics in 2012, not because of some lifelong yearning to govern, but because I was profoundly concerned with the suffering already being caused by bad economic policy and poor management of public money. Right now, our debt payments exce...

In early summer, Judy and Dennis Shepard bought airline tickets to give a speech to the workforce at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The Shepards in 1998 had founded the Matthew Shepard Foundation in honour of their late son — a 21-year-old co...

A Throne Speech is a throne speech is a throne speech, so they say. I try to be critical and look for what is being said and, equally, what hasn’t been said also. The style of this year’s speech was clear: there was a noticeable pitch to almost every...

It is a rare opportunity. Seldom does the voting public have the chance to watch their elected politicians confront very specific false promises in real time. Usually, campaign promises are either too vague to be contrasted with reality — “Make Ameri...

The recent call for independence by Senator Jason Hayward at the Labour Day rally should not be a cause for alarm or surprise — and it was to be expected. There has always been a sector of labour that has wanted independence. They are not alone becau...

You don’t have to be a prophet to know that you cannot burn a candle at both ends. Within an economy where one of the problems may be the issues of wage and benefits, and the other may just be not enough economic activity for business, the question o...

As we begin to clean up from Hurricane Harvey, the wettest hurricane on record, dumping up to 50 inches of rain on Houston in three days, and await landfall of Irma, the most powerful hurricane on record in the open Atlantic Ocean, people are asking:...