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If you live in the UAE in June, you will be well used, if indeed you ever can, to average temperatures that stick at 40 degrees Celsius and above.Not in Germany, France and Spain, where temperatures in what are still meteorological terms springtime clocked 43 degrees in some places.The mercury rocke...
For four days last weekend, many Britons were rejoicing in the Platinum Jubilee celebrations to mark 70 years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth on the throne.And in many of the street parties, fetes, local gatherings, the overriding message that came out was a deep feeling of gratitude — love &m...
On June 14, the first flight of refugees to be deported from the UK will be heading to Rwanda. Yes, Rwanda.In a sop to the hard right of the Conservative party, Priti Patel, the UK’s Home Secretary and the minister directly responsible for immigration, came up with this birdbrained plan to sen...
She doesn’t need a passport. Nor a driving licence or number plate. Her profile is ubiquitous in the money carried in wallets and coins in pockets across the United Kingdom, in letters that travel the world. Her name adorns bridges and buildings, hospitals and ships.If someone cared to calcula...
Brexit. I bet you thought it was done and dusted. Over. Finito. Not a chance.In the coming weeks, there’s every likelihood that the United Kingdom and the European Union will kick off a trade war.And talk about timing. On Wednesday morning, Britian woke up to a report that inflation this year ...
The State Opening of Parliament at Westminster is an event packed with pomp and pageantry, where symbolism is steeping in historical context, and where the imperious majesty of Britain’s devolved constitutional arrangement is on display in the oak-panelled grandeur of the halls itself.Last wee...
What’s that old saying … the more things change, the more they stay the same? Well that certainly seems to be the case in the Philippines after last week’s presidential election.Were this a trivia question from the 1990s and you were asked, who is the president of the Philippines,...
Oh dear. If court testimony could be adult rated, then the ongoing civil trial underway in a Fairfax courtroom in Virginia is colourful enough to test every level of a censor’s beep box. It’s enough to make most adults blush — and it is making for some very high viewing numbers ind...
I am old enough to remember the first time I ever logged onto a computer. For the record, it was May 15, 1989. I know the date because it was the morning when I started work as a Reporter on a paper in Toronto.Mobile phones weren’t around — and the internet certainly wasn’t. I am a...
C’est sera sera, as the French say. What will be will be. Perhaps that sentiment is a little too passe given that last Sunday’s presidential election was supposed to be closer — but it did work out all right in the end for Emmanuel Macron.President since 2017, he faced the prospect...
First off, a lesson in phonetics, and how to pronounce Sinn Fein. Sinn isn’t like the word ‘sin’ as in wrongdoing. No, it’s pronounced ‘shin’ — as in front of the leg between the knee and the ankle. Shin.And Fein? It’s pronounced just like the word &ls...
Five years ago, a then relatively new politician, Emmanuel Macron, came from relative obscurity and became the President of France.At the time he seemed fresh, full of ideas and energy — just the tonic for French voters who had become jaded and more than a little tired of the ineffectiveness o...
If you ever get the opportunity to visit the Titanic exhibition in Belfast Harbour, you should do so. The ship sank 110 years ago this month but it was built at the Harland & Wolff shipyard on Queen’s Island and the area has now been turned into a remarkable museum of life aboard — l...
When the former Second World War leader of the Free French, General Charles de Gaulle became president of his republic, he was fully aware of the potential for a communist candidate to one day, perhaps, enter the Elysee Palace.For that reason — and knowing the French propensity to vary their v...
There are events unfolding now where east and west meet in Europe that could do with the experience and assiduous ability of Madeleine Albright, the first female US secretary of state who helped steer Western foreign policy in the aftermath of the Cold War.She died on Wednesday at the age of 84 from...
Let’s begin this tale of two cities in Paris. If the French presidential election were held today, it would be a walkover for Emmanuel Macron.Three weeks ago, as Russian forces swept over the border west into Ukraine and began their military operations in earnest, French President Emmanuel Mac...
With all of the focus of much of Europe’s media being firmly aimed at the border between Ukraine and Russia over the past several weeks, news that France’s far-right leader and presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen had to suspend her campaign on Tuesday is indicative of the struggles she cu...
It just wasn’t to be. We prayed that the rescuers who tried to move a mountain to save little Rayan Oram — who accidentally fell into a well in northern Morocco — might succeed.We had all prayed for miracles before in similar dark and deep rescue attempts and prayers were answered....
You might be forgiven for thinking that the only thing that happened in the United Kingdom these past weeks had to do with parties in Downing Street of the trials and tribulations facing the Conservative party. No. Not at all.Perhaps more important than the unravelling of political support for Prime...
The House of Commons in the UK is a formidable chamber. Its oak-panelled and mahogany fittings lend it an intimate feel where on green leather seats Ministers and Members of Parliament sit shoulder to shoulder, speaking in a culture that may be chaotic across the four metres that separate Her M...
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