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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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Protesters demonstrate against the Conservative government in Whitehall, Westminster, London, on May 9, 2015, after David Cameron’s Conservative Party swept to power on Friday in Britain’s Parliamentary General Elections, winning an unexpected majority. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

“Winner takes all” vote system exaggerates Britain’s divisions

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 10, 2015 | World

London, Reuters—David Cameron can thank Britain’s winner-takes-all voting system for handing him an outright majority in parliament on just 37 percent of the vote. But by boosting the power of Scottish nationalists, it has also intensified one of his biggest...

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Migrants crowd the inflatable dinghy rescue vessel “Denaro” (not in picture) as the Italian Coast Guard approaches them, off the Libyan coast, in the Mediterranean Sea, on April 22, 2015. (Alessandro Di Meo/ANSA via AP Photo)

Opinion: Death Boats and the Missing Solution for Libya

by Osman Mirghani | Apr 24, 2015 | Opinion

While the EU is actively responding to the “death boats” tragedy that has seen thousands of bodies washed ashore in Europe, the Arab world seems to be unconcerned about the victims or the issue that concerns us more than anyone else. Almost all of those boats set sail...

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Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron leaves after meeting with Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in London, on March 30, 2015. (Reuters/Anthony Devlin/pool)

UK’s Cameron meets Queen, starts knife-edge election campaign

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 30, 2015 | World

London, Reuters—Campaigning in Britain’s closest election in decades began on Monday after Prime Minister David Cameron met Queen Elizabeth II to tell her parliament had been dissolved, teeing up a fraught battle to govern a 2.8 trillion US dollar economy....

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The Union Flag and Saltire—the national flag of Scotland—are flown above Horseguards in central London, the United Kingdom, on September 17, 2014, ahead of the referendum on Scotland’s independence. (AFP Photo/Carl Court)

Opinion: Torn States and Changing Identities

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Sep 18, 2014 | Opinion

Scotland’s pro-independence camp did not need to form armed groups or practice ritual murders to declare their intention to secede from the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, they pushed forward their secessionist scheme, which would separate the two most populous nations...