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• Brexit: as more detail has been released about the EU deals reached with PM May the resistance has grown in the UK. Politically sensitive topics like fishing rights have been treated in a highly unsensitive way (from a British perspective). With the Northern-Irish...

• Brexit: the deal negotiated by PM May has been greeted with near universal derision in the UK. A process designed to reduce a democratic deficit associated with the EU’s unaccountability, and ‘take back control’, has been undermined by poor implementation on the UK...

• U.S. Midterms: for the first time in history a party took control of the House of Representatives while the other major party increased its hold over the Senate. The resulting divided government seemed to be a true reflection of the American electorate’s desires. On...

• Arms Control: the Trump administration started the six-month process to withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty on the grounds of alleged Russian cheating. The bigger issue seems to have been that China was not a signatory to the deal...

• Saudi Arabia: stated that Khashoggi died inside its Turkish consulate, while an intelligence squad attempted to detain him. The Crown Prince (MBS) was said to be innocent of the affair and two senior officials have been dismissed. King Salman announced that MBS...