Preface: The glowing accounts of life in Nigeria recounted by older generations are at complete odds with the media portrayal of internet scoundrels and kidnappers. Would the real Nigeria please step forward. As a dual British and Nigerian citizen, I have often found that the latter status yields...
Nigel Farage is the favorite to be the next Prime Minister of the UK. But Elon Musk has stated he “doesn’t have what it takes.”
Some consolation is that U.S. financial types don’t think they’re going to be lasting all that long. Washington Analysis, a Washington, D.C.-based financial analyst, placed odds this week on how the U.S. tariff fight with Canada was likely to go. Their four main predic...
the Great Depression, and WWII, are clear in the first half of the 20th centuries. The US bureaucratic state got its start in the 1930s and held on through WWII and the cold war. By the year 2000 some of the benefits of the Reagan revolution, the Newt Gingrich...
Michael Gove has called for a tax cut before the next general election - putting him at odds with the chancellor on the first day of Conservative Party conference. Jeremy Hunt told The Times newspaper on Saturday the government was "not in a position to talk ...
So, come September, there'll be a woman in 10 Downing Street once again. Twenty six years after Margaret Thatcher was forced out of the role, Britain will have its second ever female Prime Minister, after Conservative party members vote between the two c
The odds are perhaps stacked against them, but this would bode well for a long-lasting democratic transition for Bangladesh. Arild Engelsen Ruudis professor of South Asia studies at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo. ...
Motegi also said that during his visit to Moscow talks would be held with Russia's Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin on the two countries' economic cooperation. Tokyo and Moscow have been at odds over the sovereignty of four Russian-held islands located off Japan's northernmost prefect...
Erdogan has refrained until now to take aim directly to Aksener, letting his staff do that job, but the dominant president is also known to be a ferocious politician who managed to stay uninterrupted in power 15 long years against all odds....
Yet Gove’s grandstanding is at odds with the government’s approach behind the scenes over the past year. Although there is no evidence that ministers put pressure on Ofwat to meet the company’s demands, some were privately hoping it would allow various “regulatory easements” such as reduc...