On 20 April 1968 Enoch Powell gave a talk in a small upstairs room to 85 Tories in Birmingham’s Midland Hotel. The words of this Conservative shadow minister and MP for nearby Wolverhampton South West were not directed towards these… Continue Reading
The peace process between the Turkish state and the Kurdish movement reached what everyone thought was its peak in January 2015. It was to die a painful death within two months. At the time the peace negotiations had been going… Continue Reading
For much of Donald Trump’s presidency, a lot of the smart money has been on it being, despite the histrionics in the West Wing, a more erratic version of the standard pro-business right-wing Republican administration à la Ronald Reagan or… Continue Reading