Did I not say we should have extended the voting last week by a day and, perhaps, give people a holiday? (No, wait, that is a bad idea as i...

Daily e-mail brief from Foreign Policy  informs me that: Egypt's election commission extended voting into a third day as low voter tur...

Time to recall the somewhat obscure fact that there are other countries outside the European Union and that they have political events as we...

Politicians' self-importance is always a matter of great amusement; Western politicians's self importance when they pronounce on mat...

Most of us probably spent some of the day remembering that fateful one in 2001. I can recall with extreme clarity what I did all day in wha...

The election commission has delayed its announcement of the result, which would indicate that the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Mohamed Mors...

Last Sunday there were three elections. The French parliamentary ones that went largely as expected (though Ségolène Royal lost her seat and...

The ruling Egyptian military government has announced that the border between Egypt and Gaza, the one most Western media has forgotten, will...

Or not. We still do not know how event in Egypt and other Arab countries will pan out but there is no shortage of predictions and blame bein...

And property rights. In Egypt as everywhere else. In a country where the most enterprising people have no stake in society things are likely...

Watching events in Tunisia, Algeria and, especially, Egypt, I have been struck by the number of people who probably would be hard put to pla...

Tunisia issued an international warrant "for ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and six relatives, accusing him of taking money ...

As the political world in Britain yawns and turns away becomes convulsed by the news that the egregious Baroness Warsi has decided to defle...

Or so Ivo Indzhev, a Bulgarian political blogger, comments about the appointment of the Bulgarian diplomat Irina Bokova to become UNESCO...