BANGKOK — Thailand’s political parties were considering their options on Monday after the conservative Bhumjaithai Party’s decisive election victory showed that voters chose stability over change, analysts said. “This will be the first time in the 21st century that a conservative party has won the most seats in a general election, and it is a … Read more
A very dear friend who is also a generally smart observer of Irish politics is fond of warning, God bless him, that a United Ireland might end up becoming the Irish version of Brexit – economically and politically disruptive, with long-lasting consequences and upheaval. Not, you understand, that he is against it. He is, in … Read more
After a decade of his presidency, former President Joko Widodo–usually known as Jokowi–was nominated as the finalist for the Most Corrupt Person of the Year by the Organized Crime and Corruption Report Project (OCCRP). Albeit, at the end he was not the most corrupt person of the year, he was nominated alongside former President Bashar … Read more