• OPINION

  Trump tweets show disturbing side of social media

  News, John Lloyd, Published on 06/02/2017

  » Last March, three months before Britons voted to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union, then Prime Minister David Cameron asked Daily Mail proprietor Lord Rothermere to fire the newspaper's editor, Paul Dacre. The press baron, descendant of the family which did more than any other to create the British tabloid press, refused, and did not even tell Dacre of the request until after the result of the referendum. The incident, reported by the BBC, has not been denied by any of the parties involved.

• OPINION

  France finds it tough to rid itself of political corruption

  News, John Lloyd, Published on 09/03/2017

  » Political corruption in France is common, and usually -- if the politician is at or near the top of the political game -- unpunished by law. Yet the 2017 presidential election may mark something of a revolt against a semi-aristocratic disdain for the public whose tax euros have long been plundered for private or party use.

• OPINION

  Strong headwinds lie ahead for 'ruthless' Macron

  News, John Lloyd, Published on 26/06/2017

  » We are beginning to glimpse what underpins Emmanuel Macron's success.

• OPINION

  Seeking the truth, not the tragedy, in journalism

  News, John Lloyd, Published on 03/07/2017

  » London's Grenfell Tower fire victims aren't furious just with local authorities for ignoring safety concerns raised before this month's blaze killed at least 79 residents. They're angry with journalists too.

• OPINION

  Immigration fear not limited to UK

  News, John Lloyd, Published on 17/07/2017

  » Britain's intention to leave the European Union -- Brexit -- will greatly affect the rest of the world. It's not confined to the effect it will have on the British economy, even if that is likely to be major, nor on the adjustments the remaining 27 EU states must make.

• OPINION

  Europe struggles over Trump plan

  News, John Lloyd, Published on 07/08/2017

  » 'We have to understand, that we Europeans must fight for our own future and destiny," said Angela Merkel. This was the German chancellor speaking to a crowd of supporters in May, after a testy few days of a G7 summit that included reports in German news media that Donald Trump had called her country "very bad" for selling so many cars to the United States -- and which saw the US president emerge as the only G7 dissenter on combating climate change.

• OPINION

  Merkel sets direction for Europe

  News, John Lloyd, Published on 11/09/2017

  » Germans will choose a government on Sept 24, and that government is likely to be headed, for the twelfth year running, by Angela Merkel. The uncharismatic 63-year-old from East Germany may not have captured her fellow Germans' hearts, but she has appealed so strongly to their rational selves that polls suggest they find no reason to replace her.

• OPINION

  The dire mess Britain finds itself in

  News, John Lloyd, Published on 26/09/2017

  » British politics are a terrible mess. But don't blame populism, however that's defined. If anything, blame democracy -- however that's organised.

• OPINION

  How widespread hate speech can harm your brain

  News, John Lloyd, Published on 09/10/2017

  » In a flurry of confident pronouncements within an hour of the massacre at a Las Vegas country music festival, conservative commentators and activists linked the perpetrator, Stephen Paddock, to liberal or Islamist influences. Rush Limbaugh, still the doyen of right-wing talk radio, credited Islamic State with being Paddock's ideological home, arguing that it was disguised by the liberal media because "for the American left, there is no such thing as militant Islamic terrorism."

• OPINION

  Neglect of rising threats likely to leave toxic legacy

  News, John Lloyd, Published on 16/10/2017

  » Among many of us in the generations that have done well out of the post-World War Two period, there's now a feeling of guilt -- as there should be.

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