Who would have ever thought that Donald Trump would be the leading candidate in the 2016 Republican primaries? His meteoric rise in the race for the Republican nomination epitomises the GOP’s main problem; they are too extreme. Whereas the Democrats’ five candidates are fairly balanced, with Bernie Sanders the only […]

Jeremy Corbyn, a prospective leader of the Labour party, seems to have taken the United Kingdom by storm. With the hard left championing him as a hero, and the centre-left all the way to the hard right condemning him as a harbinger of the left’s destruction. Naturally, scrutiny of his […]

England’s World Cup warm-up match against France in the Stade de France on Saturday was meant to be a reassertion of the strength in depth of Stuart Lancaster’s England squad with three weeks left until the opening match of the Rugby World Cup. Last week a largely second-string side, including […]

This debate was the first of the race for the White House and it offered us a glimpse into the GOP’s finest candidates. The Republicans are yet to modernise on ideas such as same-sex marriage and abortion. Some controversial statements on the latter did no favours for Florida senator Marco […]

The first Democratic presidential primary is not until February 2016 but there is already speculation about who will be the Democratic nominee. Hillary Clinton seems the obvious choice. She has name recognition and is backed by Wall Street and other influential donors. However, Bernie Sanders, a little-known openly-socialist senator from […]

Let’s start with the most obvious reason the U.S. is allied with Saudi Arabia: oil. Saudi Arabia is the second largest oil depository in the world, after Venezuela. It has 268,350 million barrels in oil reserves according to the U.S. Energy Administration’s International Energy Statistics and for the U.S., a […]

Less than a month remains until the 14th summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the 7th BRICS summit. Both events will be held in the Russian city of Ufa on July 8-10, 2015. The meetings will take place at a joint discussion platform for up to 3,000 guests […]

Ireland will head into the 2015 Rugby World Cup full of confidence after they won the Six Nations tournament for the second consecutive year. Knowing that only a victory would give them a chance of lifting the trophy, Ireland earned a dominating 40-10 win over Scotland at Murrayfield to ensure […]