Jeremy Corbyn, a prospective leader of the Labour party, seems to have taken the United Kingdom by storm. With the hard left championing him as a hero, and the centre-left all the way to the hard right condemning him as a harbinger of the left’s destruction. Naturally, scrutiny of his […]

The intergovernmental agreements between Moscow and Ankara on the construction of the Turkish Stream pipeline and the agreed 10.25% natural gas discount will both be signed on the same day after the new Turkish government forms in autumn 2015, announced Taner Yildiz, Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, on […]

The situation with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan on December 8, 1987, remains questionable as tensions between the two nuclear powers remain. Both sides still have unresolved concerns towards each other over the document. In particular, in the 2015 US State Department […]

The leaders of Asian, African and Latin American countries took part in the 14th summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the 7th BRICS summit that took place in the Russian city of Ufa on July 8-10, 2015. The BRICS summit, most importantly, resulted in the decision to launch […]

This debate was the first of the race for the White House and it offered us a glimpse into the GOP’s finest candidates. The Republicans are yet to modernise on ideas such as same-sex marriage and abortion. Some controversial statements on the latter did no favours for Florida senator Marco […]

Payday Lenders have become the scapegoat for the UK economy’s effect on our standard of living. The newspapers, radio, and parliament have been up in arms about the ‘legal loan sharks’ and their exploitation of the poor. The problem with these sentiments is that they do not represent that of those […]

The first Democratic presidential primary is not until February 2016 but there is already speculation about who will be the Democratic nominee. Hillary Clinton seems the obvious choice. She has name recognition and is backed by Wall Street and other influential donors. However, Bernie Sanders, a little-known openly-socialist senator from […]

I am a 50 year old married man and grandfather to 4 lovely children. I watch and observe when i play with them, and sometimes with a tinge of jealousy. Childhood is one of the most precious things we have. To have it taken from you whilst still developing is […]