perspectives

After banning smoking in public places and indoor workplaces in late 2019, Austria could be seen to finally be coming into line with the...

The Istanbul Canal was first brought to the world’s attention by Erdogan around the year 2011. Although its plan dates to the pre-Erdogan...

The United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union is unprecedented. Not only did it come as a surprise to many European countries, it...

Vladimir Putin has been in power for over twenty years. Russia is now unimaginable without his shadow silently lurking in the background....

When Putin first came to power, he inherited a Russia in a state of misery, distress and turmoil. The Communist ideology that had...

If it cannot be seen and it cannot be touched, then for many it simply does not exist. Generally, the stigma around depression has...

“To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice”. On the 75th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation, the words of Elie Wiesel, himself a...

In November 2019, Boris Johnson blocked the publication of a report into alleged Russian interference in UK democratic politics,...

In her opening statement to the European Parliament, the newly elected President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, stressed the...

High hopes, weighed down by cautious cynicism, accompanied a December summit which saw Russian president Vladimir Putin meet with his...