British PM Liz Truss on the brink as Conservative-fuelled Brexit revolution devours its children
Can Liz Truss survive? The humiliating U-turn over the top rate tax cut has won her time in the party and in the markets. But within hours of the first U-turn, her premiership was unravelling further in almost every direction. In the crammed bars of the Birmingham Hyatt hotel, seasoned...
How Brazil President Bolsonaro weaponised Covid to cut Black voter numbers to gain advantage over Lula
Last week’s elections in Brazil witnessed belated gains in representation for marginalised and vulnerable communities that have suffered a rise in hate crimes and violence under Jair Bolsonaro. But with the presidential runoff coming on October 30, the fight is far from over. Nearly four years of government led by...
Arsenal steal Liverpool’s ‘monster mentality’ with belief and spirit to go toe-to-toe with Man City
Arsenal proved they are the new “mentality monsters” after twice being pegged back before beating Liverpool. Jurgen Klopp gave his Reds the title after they won the FA Cup in May – yet they looked anything but as they fell 14 points behind the new league leaders. The Gunners are...
Finely balanced: Fans await Arteta’s art-and-guile versus Klopp’s clobber-a-club football stye at Emirates
First takes on ninth as Jurgen Klopp’s struggling Liverpool travel to the Emirates Stadium in London to go to war with Mikel Arteta’s league-leading Arsenal. If you were told this at the beginning of the campaign, you could be forgiven for believing that it was a poor attempt at a...
Trumpism isn’t going away and Obama, for all his virtues, is an imperfect analyst of Trumpism
The last few days of any president’s term are bound to spark moments of melancholy reflection – perhaps for Barack Obama even more so than most commanders in chief. Imagine Obama in the third week of January 2017: He had made history as the first Black US president; he had...
Man City’s hat-tricks in Manchester derby are first since Horace Barnes, Francis Lee’s in 1970 and 1970
In 188 editions of the Manchester derby there have only been four hat-tricks scored by Manchester City players – and two of them were scored on Sunday. Erling Haaland and Phil Foden joined Francis Lee and Horace Barnes – 1970 and 1921, no less – in City’s annals and this...
Lack confidence on either side of Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict has dashed hopes of peace talks
A month ago, there was hope for a peaceful resolution to Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict. A truce in place since March had allowed sorely needed aid to reach the region’s beleaguered population, and both sides were indicating their willingness to negotiate. That truce now lies in tatters. On 24 August, fresh...
Eyes on Qatar World Cup: Pundit says Lionel Messi is in best Argentina team he ever played in
It’s been 16 years since Messi first played in the world’s most prestigious football tournament – but so far, it’s the one trophy that has evaded him in his otherwise glittering career. The former Barcelona talisman turned Paris Saint-Germain star has rediscovered his goalscoring form at club level recently after...
Bolsonaro vs Lula: Brazil’s October 2 presidential poll to determine fate of Amazon rainforest
The upcoming Brazilian election will decide the fate of the Amazon rainforest, ecologists have warned, as the country looks set to choose between re-electing current President Jair Bolsonaro or his rival and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Since Bolsonaro took office in 2019, deforestation records have repeatedly been...
Young voters vow to change top leadership because Nigeria has been ‘ruled by one old person to another’
Two years after Samuel Ashola was shot in the leg during a peaceful protest in Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos, the unemployed artist boils with anger as he prepares to vote. “My blood is hot,” said the 30-year-old, before campaigning for the 2023 general elections starts later in September. “I’m from...
