The Case of Macron's Tough Luck
Protests aren't new to France's Emmanuel Macron. But the latest outrage against pension reforms hangs the government by a serious thread.
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Sunak Strikes a Deal
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.
Thatcher For Today
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.
Inclusion and Growth – Directly Proportional
The boardroom quota is about to mix up leadership in big German corporations.
Prioritizing the Vaccine’s Reach
A worldwide run to gain immunity against Covid-19 has begun.
Choice and Life
A democratic idea of choice gets pitted against a massive essence such as that of life in the debate over abortion rights
Trouble for Labour
The opposition in Britain is feeling a crumble in its order over Anti-Semitism
Watching from Afar
Europe is closely observing the American election this year. It does not take much to realize that the US-EU relation has been dwindling owing to Trump’s choice of adjectives for the region’s leaders and policies, and the overall lack of consensus over key issues like climate change and
Not the Time to Open All Doors
The Corona Virus is spreading through Europe. What should we do?
Secularism, Politics, and Everything In-between
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.
A Luck-Bound Deterrence
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
Coups for the Monarchy
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
A Willingness to Return
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’
Double Whammy for Russia
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
Far from Ataturk
Turkey’s authoritarian trails had always been there – but, Erdoğan’s Turkey is not, in any measure, like Ataturk’s. This does not come as a shocking revelation today. If the latter’s reformism was pro-Europe and secular, the former upholds a revision of the country based on pan-Islamism. It’