Section: The United Kingdom
Leader: Trump and an age of disorder
Mr Trump’s disregard for domestic and international norms represents an unprecedented challenge to established institutions. The US presidency has not always been held by men of distinction and honour, but Donald Trump is by some distance its least qualified occupant. The leader of the world’s sole superpower has no record of...
Ukraine sacrifices elite financial interests to stave off popular revolt
Most of us still associate ‘nationalization’ of industry with the aims of the political left. Decades ago, the Soviet Union’s.. The post Ukraine sacrifices elite financial interests to stave off popular revolt appeared first on Reaction. …read more Source:...
Trump’s calendar of global economic summits
©Van Tine Dennis/ABACA/ABACA USA/PA Images Mark your calendars for key events this year that will reveal the Trump administration’s vision to remake the world’s economic order. There will be early hints from a handful of incoming advisors who are in Davos this week and the picture will take shape slowly in speeches (and Tweets) as...
Books in brief: Who Lost Russia? By Peter Conradi
Who Lost Russia? By Peter Conradi (Oneworld, £18.99) The year 1991 was a turning point for global politics: it saw both the disbanding of the Warsaw Pact, as well as the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The narrative western politicians and intellectuals told at the time was a simple one: communism had failed and western liberal capitalism...
Ukrainian president calls for global response to Russian threat
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called for a worldwide effort to counter the threat of Russian cyber warfare and urged the United States to “be great again” by demonstrating leadership on issues such as global security. …read more Source:...
Putin, Merkel and Hollande discuss Ukraine, Syria: Kremlin
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed peacemaking efforts in Ukraine and Syria during a conference call on Wednesday, a Kremlin statement said. …read more Source:...
Trump’s surrender to Putin may mean full-blown war in the Ukraine and beyond
Donald Trump’s electoral triumph and his continuing adulation of Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin, has been greeted in Ukraine with as.. The post Trump’s surrender to Putin may mean full-blown war in the Ukraine and beyond appeared first on Reaction. …read more Source:...
Banning the bomb: we’ll all go together
The mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, after the second atomic bomb was dropped there in 1945 ©Cultura/Rex/Shutterstock Barack Obama was a cautious president, given to the odd audacious speech. In 2009, he stood on a podium in Prague’s Hradcˇany Square and declared America’s commitment to a world free from nuclear weapons. “Human destiny...
Three-person IVF baby for infertile couple
Infertile couple in Ukraine use three-person IVF to have baby after more than a decade of trying. …read more Source:...
Europe’s first ‘three-parent-baby’ born after new IVF treatment works for INFERTILE couple
EUROPE’S first “modern three-parent baby” has been born to a previously infertile couple who received the first three-person IVF treatment of its kind. …read more Source:...
