The summer of 2025 has been marked by protests and counter-protests outside several hotels housing asylum seekers, as well as at other locations.…
The UK’s largest police force, the Metropolitan Police Service, which covers the capital city’s 32 boroughs but not the City of London, is…
On 24 July 2025, in his post on X, President Emmanuel Macron became the first G7 leader to commit to recognising a Palestinian…
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The Epstein Affair: A Tale of Conspiracy, Corruption, and Criminality in American High Society
Jeffrey Epstein’s notoriety as a prolific paedophile, and a growing clamour for the disclosure of his potentially damaging “client list”, are proving to…
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Japan’s Upper House Elections of 20 July 2025: A Day of Reckoning for the Ruling Liberal Democratic Party
The conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), led by Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru, and its junior coalition partner, the Buddhist Komeito party, together won…
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Overtourism in Southern Europe: When Demand Overwhelms Supply, and Growth in the Tourist Trade is Unsustainable
Local residents in tourist hotspots across Southern European countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea are increasingly unhappy, as demonstrated by recent anti-tourism protests in…
The Guadalupe River burst its banks and overflowed on 4 July 2025 in the Hill Country of central Texas, to the west of…
On 5 July 2025, Sir Keir (Rodney) Starmer completed his first year as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. His journey to the…
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‘Alligator Alcatraz’: An Innovative Approach to Migrant Management Under President Trump
On 1 July 2025, just as his One Big Beautiful Bill was being debated in the Senate, President Trump chose to visit an…
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An Exodus of the Wealthy from the UK, and The Lure of the ‘Britannia Card’-Direct from the ‘Party of Workers’
The UK is in the midst of an exodus of the super-wealthy, a phenomenon that has been termed by some as ‘Wexit’, having…