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By Chris Patten - Apr 28,2021
LONDON — We have not heard the expression “the free world” for some time, and we certainly didn’t hear the president of the United States referred to as “the leader of the free world” when Donald Trump was in office.
By Chris Patten - Mar 23,2021
LONDON — Since the United Kingdom left the European Union, relations with its continental neighbours have gone from bad to worse.
By Chris Patten - Feb 23,2021
LONDON — US President Joe Biden’s new administration has begun to show its hand regarding its policy toward China.
By Chris Patten - Feb 29,2020
LONDON — When the German playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote that, “All power comes from the people”, he went on to ask the rather important question, “But where does it go?”Liberal democracy’s signal achievement in the half-century after World War II was to answer that question in a
By Chris Patten - Dec 31,2019
LONDON — “Truthiness”, a concept coined by the American comedian Stephen Colbert, involves saying things that you want to believe are true even if there is no factual evidence to support these assertions.
By Chris Patten - Aug 24,2019
LONDON — What is a failed state?
By Chris Patten - May 12,2019
LONDON — I first visited Sri Lanka as Britain’s development minister in the 1980s, during the early stages of the vicious war between guerrilla fighters, the so-called Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and Sri Lanka’s armed forces.
By Chris Patten - Feb 27,2019
LONDON — The game of chicken is simple to describe but dangerous to play.
By Chris Patten - Sep 19,2018
LONDON — In a 2013 press conference, then-recently inaugurated Pope Francis famously said that, when it comes to sexual orientation, including past homosexual acts, “who am I to judge?” Should we take a similarly non-judgmental approach to the past personal behaviour of our polit
By Chris Patten - Aug 27,2018
TARN, FRANCE — Shares in strongman leaders seem to be falling. The market has not yet turned bearish, but autocrats have little reason to feel bullish.Consider China.

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