"The world has stepped into a slippery patch, and we need to steady it." This is how Benjamin Disraeli saw the international scene in the early 1880s...
Even though BoJo's system of localized COVID-19 measures seems to be working, the unrelenting hysteria peddled by the British press has left millions of Britons traumatized.
"If I rang any hotel or restaurant in the country and asked to book a table for the 12 friends I arranged a meal with in March, I'd be told NO, there's a pandemic..."
Erdoğan needs epic stories of military might against real or fabricated foreign enemies to tell an increasing number of grudging voters in the face of an ailing economy. That is bad news for the entire region...