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  • Sweden’s move to the right

    Sweden a country known for openness transparency and gender equality, has changed, there is a new populist government that has opened the door to the far right.  There is an image of Sweden that it is a socialist utopia, but there is something else, it is rebelling against immigrants, taxes and change has come from…

  • Ukraine – NATO…. Russia

    Constants are at the top of the list in Warsaw and Paris; the Baltic’ nations press ever harder for Ukraine to join NATO, but Germany and the US have made certain that Ukraine will not be joining NATO any time soon. The constant in this equation is Putin, who has been re-elected with an eighty…

  • China has not quite weaned itself off the black stuff

    There is an argument in China that there should be harmony between nature and industry. But the fossil fuel that has industrialised China has been coal. China to its credit has argued that by 2060 it should be carbon neutral, but that does not explain the investment in coal powered power stations and as such,…

  • The green argument in Europe

    Nothing will change much in Europe after the election of Ursula Von de Leyen as the leader of the European Union, but there will be a larger Conservative majority in the EPP. The socialists are up in arms, especially in Spain, where the government have found themselves being out manoeuvred by a Europe that has…

  • Putin’s confidence in winning the war, not just in Ukraine.

    Yesterday was the day of the funeral of Alexei Nevalny… A sombre affair with thousands queueing to pay their respects. They stood in silence holding onto flowers and entered the Orthodox church while being monitored by the state security forces. There was no family apart from Navalny’s parents. Alexei Navalny’s wife was in Europe, doing her…

  • Ukraine 2 years on

    It is two years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the meat-grinder that is the war – is not slowing down. Advika, is the latest town to fall to Russia. But Ukraine with a shortage of ammunition held back by the US Congress’, due to their inability to differentiate right from wrong; Congress are now electioneering for the…