perspectives

Sweden hasn’t imposed a lockdown on its citizens and is instead keeping public spaces, including schools and restaurants, open. This...

A future after Covid-19 is a daunting thought. How might we be able to return to normality is an even more daunting question, as the...

During the 2008 financial crisis, many observers ventured to predict the impending collapse of the European single currency. Since 2016,...

On the 30th of March, democracy ended in Hungary. Recent liberal commentary concerning the emergence of populism throughout the western...

A decade and three subsequent general elections have passed since the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition’s ascension to government...

With his hand on a gold-embossed copy of the Russian constitution, Putin was sworn in for the fourth time in 2018, when he promised to...

On the 21st April 2019, Volodymyr Zelensky, a former comedian and complete political outsider, was swept to power in the Ukrainian...

In 2003, when Roman Polanski won the Academy Award for Best Director for his film The Pianist, he was met with thunderous applause and a...

“Paris mayoral elections have become elections of mass destruction”. Serge Federsburch used these words to describe the mayoral elections...

Italy is famous for its turbulent politics, for how parties and governments come and go at the whim of the country’s proportional system....