perspectives

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....

After banning smoking in public places and indoor workplaces in late 2019, Austria could be seen to finally be coming into line with the...

The Istanbul Canal was first brought to the world’s attention by Erdogan around the year 2011. Although its plan dates to the pre-Erdogan...

The United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union is unprecedented. Not only did it come as a surprise to many European countries, it...

Vladimir Putin has been in power for over twenty years. Russia is now unimaginable without his shadow silently lurking in the background....

When Putin first came to power, he inherited a Russia in a state of misery, distress and turmoil. The Communist ideology that had...

If it cannot be seen and it cannot be touched, then for many it simply does not exist. Generally, the stigma around depression has...