Category: Commentary
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…February 2025
February 2025 will chiefly be remembered as the month when the Western alliance, which is mainly between Europe and North America but also includes Australia and New Zealand, cracked wide open after 80 years of economic and military cooperation and domination.
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…January 2025
January has brought with it violent storms in Europe, wild fires in California, a new conflict in the DRC, not to mention the continuing war in Ukraine, and a strong sense that somewhere the four riders of the apocalypse are busy saddling up their horses.
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…December 2024
December has brought with it that rarest of all commodities, a glimmer of hope in the Middle East with the fall of the Assad regime in Syria.
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…November 2024
Despite a busy round of news headlines, from multiple conflcts to violent storms, November has mostly been about the calm before the storm, the sharp intake of breath, the oceans receding before the giant tsunami wave comes rushing back at us.
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…October 2024
October has been mainly dominated by the US Presidential election and the worsening geopolitical situation – the two being inextricably linked as everyone waits for the results of the former to see if there’s any chance of dealing with the later.
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…September 2024
Britain’s Labour government will remember September as the month the wheels came off the bus; for the rest of us this is just politics as usual. So far the prime minister Keir Starmer has not quite managed to make a total Liz Truss of things but she did set a very low bar, and hovering…
Nessan Cleary 