I heard a commentator on the radio go on and on about what a disaster Donald Trump’s tweet about China was. He wasn’t complaining about the content but about the idea of a president elect using twitter in such a delicate diplomatic situation and not using the conventional channels. Tweeting, he claimed, lowered the dignity […]
Goodbye to the Clinton Dynasty!
What an outcome! Dismissed as an outsider, Donald Trump, in the words of one commentator, “took on and comprehensively beat the party political system in first the Republicans and secondly the Democrats”. Now, the outcome of the election has changed everything. The question as to why he won cannot be answered in just a simple […]
Political Debate: How Can We Avoid the Usual “Slugfest?”
For many of us in Western European and in the United States, politics seems to have lost its appeal and hit a new low in terms of trust. Perhaps this isn’t entirely surprising after watching the leaders TV debates on both sides of the Atlantic and the British debate on Brexit. One commentator last week […]