Current Affairs

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  • What came after Trump

    Biden came into power undoing a lot of the Trump policies, but he also set into stone some of the arguments that the democrats had in finding a foreign policy that worked. There have been numerous problems with Biden’s arguments, but at least they were not as confrontational as the former presidents. But however you…

  • Will politicians ever take responsibility for what they say.

    It was obvious that the riots in Britain were going to happen. The politicians have spent the past five years migrant bashing and arguing for tougher penalties on those entering Britain illegally. But it is stories that have shocked the British people that led to the riots, the stories of young girls being abused by…

  • Populism, US and Europe

    Immigration is the catalyst to the movement towards populist arguments across the EU and the United States. The arguments concerning immigration and migration have been catapulted to the top of the agenda of the populist politician, but underneath there are also arguments of tax burdens and centralised governments. Trumps call to the electorate of lets…

  • The Japanifacation of China, or not

    There is an argument that China’s economy is entering a difficult phase dependent on growth. The worries concern prime industries but especially the property market and high end manufacturing, but the arguments in the FT and elsewhere is that China is entering a bubble where stocks, property and currency are overvalued, which doesn’t quite tally…

  • What did NATO achieve in Washington

    NATO didn’t quite get there for Ukraine, but its attempts to Trump proof any agreements that Trump would make with Putin, could and would be undone by NATO’s affirmation of Ukraine as a partner. The US elections ran large over NATO’s summit in Washington and everyone was watching out for any gaffes that Biden would…

  • France’s move to the right

    The Front National (FN) founded in 1972, is a bi pass of an argument that forgot the terror  the French felt during the Vichy government and was also a hangover from the war in Algeria. The FN ran on an argument of immigrant bashing, which challenged the thread that was French democracy, and implanted an…