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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks as Reuters Editor-at-Large Sir Harold Evans (not pictured) moderates a Reuters Newsmaker conversation “Politics on the Edge,” in Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 20, 2016. REUTERS/Bria Webb

Blair Hints a Comeback in British Politics

by Abdullatif Jaber | Oct 9, 2016 | World

London- Britain’s late Labour Party leader and PM Harold Wilson once said that “a week is a long time in politics,” referring to the crazy world of politics, in which in a short period of time a limitless number of earth-shattering events can take place. After...

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Opinion: The Problems Facing America’s Republicans and Britain’s Labour

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Aug 2, 2016 | Opinion

America had an exceptional few days last week as the Republican Party officially adopted the billionaire right-wing firebrand Donald Trump as its presidential candidate for next November’s race to the White House. In the meantime, across the Atlantic, where the vote...

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Sadiq Khan, Labour’s London Mayoral candidate, Reuters

Sadiq Khan to Asharq Al-Awsat: British Muslims Demand Integration and Learning English

by Mina Al-Droubi | Apr 30, 2016 | Interviews

London- With impending mayor elections waiting just around the corner, due on the 5th of May and would succeed the current London Mayor Boris Johnson, Labor Party candidate Sadiq Khan corroborated his determination for censoring social media outlets as to brazen out...

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Jeremy Corbyn speaks on stage after he is announced as the new leader of The Labour Party during the Labour Party Leadership Conference in London, United Kingdom, on September 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

The West and the Challenge of Radicalism

by Amir Taheri | Sep 16, 2015 | Features

In a sunny sky the smallest cloud makes a big impression! This is how Mikhail Bakunin, one of the fathers of revolutionary radicalism in Europe, described the political situation of the continent in the 1860s. Europe seemed to be in peace, its leadership elites united...

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Labour Party leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn speaks at an election campaigning event at Ealing in west London, Britain August 17, 2015. Britain’s opposition Labour Party has begun voting for a new leader in a contest that polls indicate will be won by Corbyn, a veteran fan of Karl Marx who has upstaged rivals by promising a shift back to the party’s socialist roots. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

Opinion: Why is Jeremy Corbyn frightening the horses?

by Amir Taheri | Sep 5, 2015 | Opinion

Until a few months ago hardly anyone had heard of Jeremy Corbyn. And those who had, this writer among them, knew him only as an eccentric “champagne-and-caviar Socialist” member of the British House of Commons. At an age when you are not considered to be somebody...