COP28 marked by controversies over burning of fossil fuels
COP28, the UN’s 28th annual climate change conference, is currently taking place in Dubai. More than 140 government leaders and heads of state are attending the conference, including King Charles…
The 2024 US Presidential Elections: what to expect
The United States elections will take place in less than a year on 5 November 2024. What is expected going into these elections? At present, the Democrats have four candidates…
Fringe 2023: Gyles Brandreth Can’t Stop Talking
I’m sure the words ‘laugh a minute’ will be bandied around a great deal this Fringe season (or not depending on whether you are harassed with the words ‘free fringe’…
Has Joe Biden betrayed the environment?
President Biden, the US’s first supposed ‘climate president’, promised “no more drilling on federal lands, period” during his presidential campaign and his administration set a goal of halving greenhouse gas…
99 Spy Balloons
The plot thickens. At least four foreign objects have now been shot down over the US. The Chinese are livid. The Americans are baffled. No one seems to know exactly…
The new face of international espionage? Balloons.
It’s just a balloon. Nothing to worry about. Just your regular, normal, giant spy balloon. Please don’t shoot at it. One of the more puzzling sources of friction in foreign…
Biden delivers big bucks with new stimulus bill
The Student‘s White House Correspondents on what President Biden’s American Rescue Plan means for the US economy With a bill widely touted as a pastiche of the New Deal, US…
At the Munich Security Conference, Biden pulls no punches
“America is back,” US President Joe Biden boldly asserted at the Munich Security Conference this February, outlining a combative but calculated attitude in dealing with America’s most militaristic adversaries. Unlike…