UK’s Sunak brings back Cameron, sacks interior minister in new reset
London, UKReuters British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak brought back former leader David Cameron as foreign minister on Monday in a reshuffle triggered by his firing of Home Secretary Suella Braverman after her criticism of police threatened his authority. It was the latest reset for a prime minister whose party is badly lagging the Labour Party […]
Jailed ex-premier Imran Khan barred from Pakistan politics for five years
Islamabad, PakistanReuters Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan, who has been convicted and jailed on graft charges, was barred from politics for five years on Tuesday, an official order said. The order by the Election Commission of Pakistan, seen by Reuters and confirmed by a senior officer, said Khan was disqualified in line with his […]
Essay: Fake news – EU targets political social media ads with tough new regulation proposal
In an article first published on The Conversation, TOM KANE, a senior lecturer in business analytics at the University of Stirling, looks at what’s being done to limit the influence of social media in elections…
Essay: When religion gets political
TIM COSTELLO, a senior fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity in Sydney, says seeking political power to impose and enforce a religious vision is a growing problem around the world…
Survey finds a third of Americans are Christian nationalists and most are white evangelicals
United StatesRNS A new survey finds that fewer than a third of Americans, or 29 per cent, qualify as Christian nationalists, and of those, two-thirds define themselves as white evangelicals. The survey of 6,212 Americans by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution is the largest yet to gauge the size and scope of Christian […]
Sight-Seeing: The Christmas revolution
NILS VON KALM says the Christmas is a story about those on the margins…
Balance
I’m not strongly on any political side. I see good (and evil) on all sides. I’ve voted for most. I think it’s good that we change parties in charge now and then. I think it brings balance and accountability to politics. Inside Australia’s House of Representatives. PICTURE: Aditya Joshi/Unsplash What I am a huge supporter […]
Essay: Shinzo Abe’s killing – the history of political violence in Japan
In the wake of the assassination of former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe on Friday, UK-based scholars, HUGO DOBSON and KRISTIAN MAGNUS HAUKEN, explain – in an article first published on The Conversation – why the assassination is sadly not without precedent…
The Interview: Bruce Chilton on his new book plumbing the role the Herods had in forming early Jewish, Christian views
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, speaks with academic Bruce Chilton about the dynastic royal family that governed Judea during the time of Christ…
Essay: How Israel’s missing constitution deepens divisions between Jews and with Arabs
In an article first published on The Conversation, scholar BRENDAN SZENDRO outlines why he sees a constitution for Israel as a key to addressing the nation’s political instability…