Ex-Conservative party chair, Chris Patton the last British governor of Hong Kong who served governor cover from 1992 to 1997, visited a psychiatric hospital where he was accosted by a patient demanding “Why your democracy is handing Hong Kong, a fine and free city, over to a communist society without ever having consulted the 7.5…
Cultural historian, Hannah Rose Woods explores how the golden ages have haunted Britain since medieval times including the nostalgic 2012 Olympic summer when the UK seemed confident to its past imperial, European identity, and London laid claim to the title of the world’s greatest capital city, with its progressive, outward-looking mayor Boris Johnson. Danny Boyle’s…
Boris Johnson, who defied the normal rules of politics for so long, and became prime minister in July 2019 without an election, and later secured a historic landslide victory of winning an 80-seat majority including in parts of the country that had never voted Conservative before, has resigned as Conservative party leader. The Prime Minister…
Remember one of America’s most legendary diplomats, Henry Kissinger, now 99 is still writing books, find the soul in statecraft, profiles, and analyses six extraordinary leaders he has known, – Lee Kuan Yew, Adenauer, Nixon, de Gaulle, Thatcher, and Sadat to draw general lessons about character and intelligence of leaders who are architects to change…
Lahoud’s The Bin Laden Papers: How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about al-Qaeda, its leader, and His Family, reveals the heroic tale of Americans and their work in the region. She pieces together a remarkable insider account of al-Qaeda’s history, based on the writings of bin Laden and his inner circle, and her conclusion…
Agent Twister is the true story that happened in November 1974, John Stonehouse MP, once a star in Harold Wilson’s Labour government, and a former aviation and telecoms minister has sex betrayal, widespread criminal fraud and is the only known case of a UK minister spying decade-long for a Communist state, went missing in Miami,…
Conservative MPs voted in favour of Boris Johnson remaining as PM by 211 votes to 148 and survived the confidence vote brought by his own party, following Sue Gray’s report detailing lockdown rule-breaking in Downing Street. Boris Johnson beat off a substantial rebellion by his own members of parliament and said “ The government can…
Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines that it drew in the sand after the First World War and through the League of Nations mandates over the fledgling states that followed. Forty years later the Suez crisis dealt a fatal blow to Britain’s standing in the Middle East and is often represented as…
Anthony Albanese vows unity after labor seizes power. Australia has elected its first Labor government in almost a decade, ousting Scott Morrison’s coalition. Mr. Anthony Albanese the new Australian prime minister told jubilant voters that Australians had “voted for change”. The center-left vowed to bring people together, invest in social services and “end the climate…
Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, David Cameron, George Osborn, Theresa May, Dominic Cummings, Daniel Hannan, and Jacob Rees-Mogg are all not just colleagues, but they are peers, rivals, and friends and they walked out of the world of student debates onto the national stage, they brought their university politics with them. These smirking Oxonians think that…