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From Putin to Zuma to Trump, voters put personality over policy
JACOB Zuma, president of South Africa, survived a no-confidence motion in the country’s parliament last week. It was the eighth since he took office eight years ago.
Europe’s leaders struggle over a Trump strategy
“We have to understand, that we Europeans must fight for our own future and destiny,” said Angela Merkel. This was the German chancellor speaking to a crowd of supporters in May, after a testy few days of a G7 summit ...
Don’t write off post-Brexit London just yet
The City of London, with New York one of the two greatest financial centers of the world, is under a greater threat to its primacy than at any time in its 20th and 21st-century history. How it manages that threat ...
Europe’s Brexit envy
Britain’s intention to leave the European Union - Brexit - will greatly affect the rest of the world. It’s not confined to the effect it will have on the British economy, even if that is likely to be major, nor ...
Now is the summer of Britain’s discontent
The BBC news at 7:00 this past Tuesday morning had a number of stories - each redolent of the despair that grips British public life
Merkel is wrong about Trump and Brexit
By John Lloyd The chancellor of Germany no longer trusts the United States or the United Kingdom. In a May 28 campaign speech in Bavaria, Angela Merkel signaled distance from the two “Anglo Saxon” states, telling her audience “we Europeans must ...
Political corruption in France is common. Four reasons that could change.
By John Lloyd Political corruption in France is common, and usually - if the politician is at or near the top of the political game - unpunished by law. Yet the 2017 presidential election may mark something of a revolt against ...
Russia can only use the United States as an excuse for so long
John Lloyd Sergei Guriev, Russia’s most prominent free market economist, left Moscow in 2013 for Paris, in fear of his liberty. He had publicly supported dissidents, criticized the administration’s policies, was an active and committed liberal, in politics as in economics. ...
It was a party, a joy ride, an effusion of spirits
John Lloyd CAIRO – I’ve been in Egypt the past few days to witness the Egyptian people’s indignation at their president, Mohamed Morsi. But where best to watch? On Sunday I joined a march from a metro station in Cairo’s Heliopolis ...
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