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By Adam Bennett Having listened to our readers’ feedback, this represents the first in a regular series of monthly Opinion pieces. Their content will not necessarily reflect the views of The International, only those of their authors. “Britain will have to be made an example of – any recalcitrant government that steps outside the modus […]
In this series of articles, our foreign affairs editor Colin McGinness provides a concise roundup of the biggest geopolitical events from the past month. Asia Farmers continue to protest in India, culminating in a dramatic storming of the iconic Red Fort in Delhi. The protests are a response to a proposed government reform to agriculture trade policy […]
By Nikhil Bandlish Amidst what has been one of the most tumultuous periods in recent political, social, and medical history, 2021 may be the year that planet Earth attempts to turn the page of what has undoubtedly been a testing chapter. For the Western world, the last few years may have been characterised by the […]
By Jude Holmes “It Was the Winter of Despair” “Now is the winter of our discontent/ Made glorious summer by this sun of York” are the famous opening lines of Shakespeare’s Richard III, probably written at the end of 1593. The year 1593 had started much as 2021, with an ominous rise in London plague […]
By Adam Bennett “This American carnage stops right here, and it stops right now.” – President Donald Trump, 19th January 2017 Four years ago this month, Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States. The campaign had been hard-fought, with its result shocking observers from virtually every corner of the globe. It seemed […]
By Nikhil Bandlish With a warm climate, low cost of living, an abundance of untouched, uninhabited rainforest, and beautiful mountains and deserts, one could be forgiven for assuming that Bolivia is the embodiment of a modern-day natural oasis. However, beyond the surface of rural dirt-tracks and urban neoclassical architecture lies a nation with a fractured […]
In this series of articles, our foreign affairs editor Colin McGinness provides a concise roundup of the biggest geopolitical events from the past month. Asia Ant Group, the Chinese tech-giant behind Alipay, has been forced to pause its attempts at listing shares on the Shanghai and Hong Kong stock exchanges. The announcement came as part […]
By Colin McGinness Ongoing protests in Bangkok continue to rock Thailand, as they enter the fifth straight month of organised demonstrations. These demonstrations have captured the attention of many foreign news outlets, and have dominated news in the country. But to many casual observers, these protests have come as a shock. Nominally a democracy, the […]
By Joseph Eyre In the early hours of June 30th, deep inside Iranian territory, a fire broke out at a key nuclear facility near the city of Natanz. Not long after, explosions roared through the night air. Behrouz Kamalvandi, a spokesperson for the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation (AEOI) said that the incident caused “significant damage” […]
The Story of Donald Trump’s Election Victory and Defeat in Memes By Loui Marchant In November 2016, the results of the US presidential election sent much of the world’s media into a tailspin of shock and confusion. Among certain online communities, however, the news came not as a surprise but as a validation that memes […]