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Amid all the arguments about the Euro-constitution, we are forgetting to ask a very basic question: Is the EU good at what it does? Before handing over a new tranche of powers, it is surely sensible to look at what Brussels is doing with the powers it already has.

A huge debate rages on in the UK about the legacy and morality of its colonial past and the jury is still out on it

Africa is getting richer and freer, but sadly Zimbabwe’s troubles are most probably not over

For the French and the Germans, the EU is emotional rather than political

Tory manifesto is a plan for a competitive Britain, interested and involved in the affairs of every continent, including Europe

When people are told what to do, they kick against authority

The in campaign was expecting to be well in front by now. Why else would it resort to such desperate measures?

Socialists are living in denial as they grapple with the difficult truth that their ideology always ends with a knock in the night

The Sykes-Picot Agreement is now largely forgotten in the countries that authored it but its arbitrariness can be inferred from the region’s straight frontiers

You need to find a revered national figure, and then let everyone know that you are a better human being than he was

Economic woes have led to Golden Dawn’s rise and provoked a crisis of democracy