World View

When you spend four years writing a book on climate change, you get to know most of the leading players. I have never seen them so dismayed.

The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip since October’s Hamas attacks on Israeli settlements will reach 40,000 people in the next week or so — it’s back up to about 50-100 civilian dead per day.

The past week has been a roller-coaster ride for Donald Trump.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Iranian TV just before the second round of voting on Sunday "I have heard that people’s zeal and interest is higher than in the first round [of Iran’s presidential election] . . . It is wrong to assume those who abstained in the first round are opposed to Islamic rule."

Nothing else in France looks like the 1930s, so why should fascism?

By Friday we will know the outcome of the British election.

Cyril Ramaphosa is the president of South Africa again, but everything else is different.

Scarcely a week passes without some media pundit or attention-seeking historian warning that a great war is nigh.

Even before the final results were in from all of the 27 European Union countries that voted in the EU elections last weekend, President Emmanuel Macron had called national elections in France for the end of this month.

"Pride goeth before a fall", says the Old Testament, so India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was just begging for humiliation. It duly arrived.