Dispatches
Midterm madness — or Trump’s last stand?
Could the US midterm elections change the course of Trump’s presidency?
The Merkel era ends in angst and anger
In Chemnitz, neo-Nazi street protests and rage against Germany’s liberal consensus erupt
Enter the Professor, Putin’s Balkan stooge
The maverick movie director Emir Kusturica backs Russian expansionism in the Balkans
Refugees are big business for the UN
In Nairobi, there is resentment that asylum-seekers are treated better than local people
Saving Europeans isn’t the Italians’ job
In Reggio Calabria, ordinary people have had enough of the pro-EU elite
Is South Africa about to fall apart?
“It feels as if the country is beginning to unravel, that it is slipping towards ungovernability. Perhaps it can still be pulled back together but nothing is certain”
Catalan myths must now confront reality
The claims of the pro-independence campaigners are historically dubious
Trump’s big gamble on North Korea
The US President may yet confound his critics
Cyril Ramaphosa’s poisoned chalice
South Africa’s new leader has a near-impossible task ahead of him
Capitalist rebirth of Hoxha’s hellhole
Tirana, capital of Albania, has been transformed — a bustling, revitalised city, far from the repressive dictatorship of the past
Carrying water for freedom
Hong Kong’s protestors are brave and, so far, successful. The Chinese Communist Party leadership must be kicking itself
Discussions with a stone wall
Britain’s main gay rights organisation is risking its own future by adopting gender self-ID as its new cause
In the heartlands of white-flag academia
When I tried to find out why my pro-Brexit article was turned down I was rebuffed — showing the intellectual conformism of universities