This overblown rhetoric about ‘coups’ and ‘Nazism’ is in no one’s interests “This is Britain’s Reichstag Fire Decree moment.” That was one man’s reaction to Boris Johnson’s decision last week to prorogue parliament. It’s the kind of intemperate remark you expect in the wilder reaches of social media, where Godwin’s Law – the inevitability of someone bringing up Hitler in an online debate – is alive and [...]
Re-admit Russia to the G7? It should be expelled outright If reports are to be believed, the recent G7 summit was a tense affair, mainly thanks to Donald Trump. From being the only head of government to miss a meeting on climate change, to pitching his own Miami hotel resort for the next G7 summit, the US President kept the other world leaders constantly on [...]
