For a moment there, I thought we had a new global threat to deal with, alongside the old favourites, like climate change, nuclear war and pandemics.

The decision to promote Juan Guaidó as a rival president to Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela was clearly made in Washington, not in Caracas.

There is no need to practice bleeding, as the soldiers say, but the British government did not get the message.

The Kurds of Syria are now frantically digging trenches around their cities and towns just south of the Turkish border, because Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that President Donald Trump gave a “positive response” to his plan for an invasion of Kurdish-cont

Maybe the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a bit more democratic than the mere Republic of Congo, but it is a matter of, fairly small, degrees.

Barack Obama said of the US midterm elections that “the character of our country is on the ballot”, and the outcome proved him right.

It was either ignorant or irresponsible for those campaigning for Brexit, British exit from the European Union, two years ago to claim that the Irish border would not be a problem.

The last time I wrote about the treaty banning “intermediate-range” nuclear missiles was 31 years ago, and I really thought I would never have to visit that tedious subject again.

They still have not dropped the other shoe. The “Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC” contains terrifying forecasts about what will happen when we reach an average global temperature 1.5ºC higher than the pre-industrial average. We are now at over 1ºC.