News from Across the Pond.
In a stunning electoral shift, Labour has ended its fourteen-year drought with Keir Starmer poised to take over 10 Downing Street. Starmer's leadership, marked by pragmatic policy changes and internal party reforms, will be tested as he navigates economic challenges.
With France's political landscape shifting, President Macron called for early elections. As the right-wing gains strength, what does this mean for France and the world?
Protests aren't new to France's Emmanuel Macron. But the latest outrage against pension reforms hangs the government by a serious thread.
The Northern Ireland puzzle may have been put to rest momentarily with the Windsor Framework. Here's a look at what's at stake as news of the new deal breaks.
Margaret Thatcher’s economic policies may not have been as greatly hated by peers or deemed unsuitable for the time had her term been set in the current period. Here’s looking back at the Iron Lady’s days in power.
The boardroom quota is about to mix up leadership in big German corporations.
A worldwide run to gain immunity against Covid-19 has begun.
A democratic idea of choice gets pitted against a massive essence such as that of life in the debate over abortion rights
The opposition in Britain is feeling a crumble in its order over Anti-Semitism
The Corona Virus is spreading through Europe. What should we do?
France’s secularism, laicite as it’s called, prohibits the public expression of religion. Democratic rights also include that to blaspheme. So, it wasn’t out of context or an act of destruction when Samuel Paty displayed controversial cartoons to prove this point in his module on freedom of expression.
If the fiasco of Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren’t enough to steer the world’s attention towards the damage that nuclear weapons could do and the scale of such damage, the 45 years that followed should have served that purpose. The Cold War between the US and erstwhile-USSR (a term
Britain has a monarch. So does Thailand. But, there’s a key difference between the two which if ignored makes our reading of the two countries drastically misinformed. While the UK’s monarch, the Queen, is its titular head, in Thailand, the story is on the contrary. The latter’s
History lessons often pose students and inquisitive adults alike with a perennial question – ‘why are we learning details about events that happened centuries ago, ones that hold no significance today?’ The simplest answer to these questions goes somewhat along the lines of not repeating the same mistakes as before. We’
Alexei Navalny and Alexander Lukashenko – these men are at the centre of all focus that Russia receives today. Navalny is nothing like Lukashenko. The latter is an incumbent in his country while the first, an outlaw where he sought to emerge as a political opponent. Lukashenko is ‘friend’ to Putin
