International Affairs Archives

Spain Must Free Catalonian Independence Prisoners to Restore Order

By William J. Furney, in Barcelona It’s past midnight on Monday in the Catalonian capital Barcelona, where nine independence leaders were jailed by the Spanish Supreme Court earlier in the

October 5, 2019 Commentary / International Affairs

Courageous Greta Thunberg Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

By William J. Furney Whether Greta Thunberg wins the Nobel Peace Prize next week for her environmental campaigning is irrelevant — because the Swedish organisation with its money from the

September 7, 2019 Commentary / International Affairs

Boris’ Brexit Bull May Land Him Behind Bars

By William J. Furney To publicly admit you’re a supporter of the United Kingdom’s proposed departure from the mighty European Union is to usually invite scorn and ridicule: you’d be

July 27, 2019 Commentary / International Affairs

Troubled Boy-King Boris and His Unlikely Quest for World Dominance

By William J. Furney Boris Johnson’s first appearance at the despatch box in parliament this week revealed a man with a fixation on other ebullient and equally flamboyant British statesmen,

July 13, 2019 Commentary / International Affairs

Hong Kong’s Boss Is Tone Deaf, and No One Is Listening

By William J. Furney The sterile halls of power in Beijing will be filled with fiery alarm at the mass insolence in Hong Kong when the omnipotent Communist Party thought

June 8, 2019 Commentary / International Affairs

Asma All Smiles as Syria Burns

By William J. Furney Asma al-Assad, the first lady of Syria and previously known for her love of high-end shopping in London and other fashionable capitals of Europe, until the

April 6, 2019 Commentary / International Affairs

Stoning in the 21st Century

By William J. Furney Of all the forms of capital punishment, stoning is surely the most brutal and howlingly grotesque, and picturing in your mind how the long, bloody and

February 2, 2019 Commentary / International Affairs

A Great Turkey Disconnect

By William J. Furney You have to turn on laptops and tablets as you go through the twin layers of security at Istanbul’s jaded and soon-to-be redundant Ataturk Airport, to

January 19, 2019 Commentary / International Affairs

Britain’s Brexit Crisis: Let The People Decide (Again)

By William J. Furney Surely one of the overarching ironies in the long-running and sorry saga that is Brexit is that the prime minister who is attempting to deliver the

October 13, 2018 Commentary / International Affairs

Saudi Journalist ‘Murder’ Would Be Indelible Stain on ‘Modernising’ Kingdom

By William J. Furney The alleged murder of a Saudi journalist at a Turkish consulate is, if proven, one of the more shocking events of modern times, and would show