World View

It didn’t take long.

Javier Milei, the Elon Musk wannabe who became president of Argentina two years ago chainsaw in hand, is now in deep trouble with the voters, and the mid-term elections are due this month.

"The thing that comforts me,"

When a bad man does a good thing, we should honour him for it even if his motives are selfish.

Ten more countries are recognising Palestine as a sovereign state in the course of this week.

If Donald Trump were a religious man, he might have said "There but for the grace of God go I" when he heard that former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro had been sentenced to 27 years in prison.

There is no "New World Order", although there is certainly a new world disorder.

Two Africa-based advocacy groups, Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa, launched a "Change the Map" campaign in April.

It is like one of those slapstick comedies from the early days of silent films: the Keystone Cops movies, perhaps, or Buster Keaton’s various efforts.

"I love deadlines," Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, said.