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Enter the Professor, Putin’s Balkan stooge
The maverick movie director Emir Kusturica backs Russian expansionism in the Balkans  
Robert Thicknesse

Refugees are big business for the UN
In Nairobi, there is resentment that asylum-seekers are treated better than local people
Heidi Kingstone

Saving Europeans isn’t the Italians’ job
In Reggio Calabria, ordinary people have had enough of the pro-EU elite
Guglielmo Verdirame

Is South Africa about to fall apart?
"It feels as if the country is beginning to unravel, that it is slipping towards ungovernability. Perhaps it can still be pulled back together but nothing is certain"
R. W. Johnson

Catalan myths must now confront reality
The claims of the pro-independence campaigners are historically dubious 
Gerald Frost

Trump’s big gamble on North Korea
The US President may yet confound his critics
Dov Zakheim

Cyril Ramaphosa’s poisoned chalice
South Africa's new leader has a near-impossible task ahead of him
R. W. Johnson

Capitalist rebirth of Hoxha’s hellhole
Tirana, capital of Albania, has been transformed — a bustling, revitalised city, far from the repressive dictatorship of the past
Andrew Cook

The Dying Days Of Zuma’s South Africa
Jacob Zuma's hold on South African politics is weakening, throwing the ANC into crisis
R. W. Johnson

Unconventional Convention
Can the Libertarians break through America's two-party system?
Oliver Wiseman

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House