Trump’s European tariffs risk endangering America.
8 April 2025 America’s ‘Liberation Day’ brought forth a whole range of new tariffs against a wide range of countries. To put it politely, there is an extremely robust debate…
From Powder Keg to Bulwark: The Balkans can Save Europe.
5 March 2025 Since sitting down to write this article last week a lot happened. The Zelensky-Trump meeting, an appalling commentary on how far the West has fallen. Worse still,…
Canada’s Cabinet Problem
10 February 2025 While the pointless Liberal leadership race carries on what stands out from all the noise is the lack of commentary from candidates on more fundamental structural change.…
Strategic Instability and Vulnerability in the Balkans
27 January 2025 This week, despite EU protests, Kosovo has moved forward with the closure of parallel institutions used by the country’s ethnic Serb minority. This, as an election observation…
What to watch for in 2025
1 January 2025 If there is one thing that we at DefRep enjoy – it’s predicting the future, something we are shockingly good at considering the amount of beer and…
Pierre Poilievre gets the problem right but the solution wrong.
31 December 2024 I was reading Canada’s National Post and came across an article on a subject that is pretty close to my heart, the state of universities in Canada.…
Mark Carney can’t save Trudeau’s Liberals and will torpedo his career if he tries.
10 December 2024 For what feels like forever now, voices from the moderate Left have sung in chorus the high praise of their future saviour Mark Carney. The former Governor…
Stupid or lying: Trudeau’s latest gambit, gun confiscation to save Ukraine.
6 December 2024 The Trudeau Government has been rotting from inactivity as the House remains at loggerheads over their refusal to release unredacted documents concerning Sustainable Development Technology Canada aka…
Erdoğan’s diminished Turkey faces a questionable future.
21 November 2024 Turkish leader Tayyip Erdoğan’s re-election last year means the 70-year-old President is now serving his last legal term. Questions have been raised about his future and with…
Kosovo: A thorn in the side of the Balkans
14 November 2024 In August connected to my writing on Bulgaria’s election woes I dedicated time to exploring the move in Belgrade towards Europe and the ways in which relations…