Opinion

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will fail in his promise to give back control to the UK over its policies post-Brexit. In fact, London will have fewer foreign policy alternatives to subservience to the United States. While the UK was negotiating with Brussels over its divorce from the European Union, Johnson …

Greenland has long been a bargaining chip between the US and Denmark. President Donald Trump made his name in real estate on the world’s glitziest island with the help of tax breaks and loopholes. As President, it seems Trump wants to take his real estate experience to a new level. …

Can you imagine what Trump and the media would have said if the shooter had been a Muslim instead of a white male?! If the El Paso shooter had been a Muslim, the entire Muslim American community would be blamed for the actions of this one person. If the El …

“Voice assistants have a dark side, and we may be paying for their limited benefits with our privacy” A news story in the Guardian last week confirmed what many Apple users likely already suspected: Siri, Apple’s voice assistant, has the power to record private conversations, and these audio clips aren’t …

The belief that America is exceptional is based on the old colonial misconception that power bestows moral superiority. The uproar over US President Donald Trump’s latest outrageous remarks attacking four members of the US Congress – Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar, all women of colour – …

A new survey of leading intellectuals shows many of them are preoccupied with trying to answer: who are we? What is preoccupying the world’s leading minds? It is an audacious question for sure. Some might say leading physicists will be concentrating on physics, leading philosophers on philosophy, historians on history …

Kushner’s plan recycles failed past proposals and will clearly not succeed. But was it meant to in the first place? Proposing an economic approach to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is nothing new and it was definitely not pioneered by US President Donald Trump and his adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner. …

The use of facial recognition in law enforcement takes us one step closer to our dystopian future. When I was a child, I used to dream of growing up to live in a magical world where every move would be monitored by cameras tracking my identity, behavior, and emotions. Just …

China is not an enemy. It is a nation trying to raise its living standards through education, international trade, infrastructure investment, and improved technologies. In short, it is doing what any country should do when confronted with the historical reality of being poor and far behind more powerful countries. Yet …

In the same way, we’re now horrified people used to smoke in offices, we’ll soon find it almost unthinkable that people used to consume so much meat. Meat is dead. Carnivores are going the way of cigarette smokers and, by 2050, there’s a good chance that it will be socially …

Since the dawn of time, mankind has always been afraid of evil and evil spirits. In all parts of the world, it is possible to come across rituals for keeping evil spirits away. The evil eye is believed to cause harm to someone or something. Supernatural harm may come in …

Christmas has numerous traditions, of which perhaps none is more popular than a decorated tree. Whether real or artificial, Christmas trees are synonymous with the holiday. But how did trees become part of Christmas? Trees have been used in rituals and as decorations since ancient times, thus making the source …

Can scarfing carrots really help you see better in the dark? In the dead of night, just how did the British Air Force manage to gun down German aircraft during World War II? Eating carrots was the key to the pilots’ success, according to the U.K. Ministry of Food. The …

Last week, it emerged that school breaks are shorter. So where do we pick up life lessons? Will nobody think of the swots? The news that schools, in the tortuous attempts to fill children’s heads with enough learning to cope with a barrage of tests, have been steadily helping themselves …

Microsoft has a lot of sympathy for your point of view. Software updates are inevitable because the world changes, new hardware technologies are developed, new features are needed to cater to new circumstances, and new threats need new defenses. That’s true for every operating system in the fast-moving consumer world. …

Credit where it’s due. The Saudi Absher app, just described as “inhuman” by two clearly terrified Saudi refugees, also has some fabulous user reviews on its supplier websites, Apple and Google Play. To read the surge of five-star tributes placed after the app’s invaluable contribution to human enslavement was widely …

It was little over a year ago that the Saudi Arabian crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, made a high-profile visit to London. During his three-day stay, he was treated to lunch with the Queen, dinner with Princes William and Charles, and photos on the steps of Downing Street. The charm-offensive …

So it turns out that, indeed, President Donald Trump was not exonerated at all, and certainly not “totally” or “completely”, as he claimed. Special counsel Robert Mueller didn’t reach a conclusion about whether Trump committed crimes of obstruction of justice – in part because, while a sitting president, Trump can’t …

Expected or not, Donald Trump’s veto of a bipartisan Congressional resolution to end US military involvement in Saudi Arabia’s murderous war in Yemen is an outrage. It will prolong the unspeakable suffering of millions of Yemeni civilians, the blameless victims of Riyadh’s vicious war. Yet Trump’s uncaring arrogance also threatens …

April 11, 2019, brought us a new word for Judas: Moreno—the puppet president of Ecuador who sold Julian Assange to Washington for his 30 pieces of silver. Yesterday’s arrest of Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London is the first stage in Washington’s attempt to criminalize the First Amendment to …