Topsy-turvy
Faint praise for fickle democracies...
The British prime minister calls an early election to save his Party, which is more unpopular than it has been at any point since 1997.
The French president calls an early election to save his Party, which has just been roundly defeated in European elections.
The American president visits France for the anniversary of the Normandy invasion and where, in the presence of the leaders of Germany and Ukraine, he equates today’s Russia with Nazi Germany.
The UN Security Council votes for an American plan for a cease-fire in Gaza which the Americans are claiming is an Israeli plan, which the Israeli government refuses to endorse, only for the Americans to insist that the intransigence of Hamas is the sole obstacle to peace.
Voters in two of the founding members of the BRICS group – India and South Africa – deliver their governing parties a blow, denting the soi-disant view of the ‘Global South’ as an incubator of authoritarian populists.
Stay tuned for our next episode: dictatorships can be fickle too. -