In March 2019 Italy became the only G7 country to sign up to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. In December 2023 it withdrew. Nothing dramatic happened in between. There was…
In 2016, Ireland did something almost no other country had tried at that scale: it handed one of its most divisive political questions to a group of 99 ordinary citizens,…
Late on 3 December 2024, South Korea’s president went on television and declared martial law. The decree banned political activity and placed the media under the control of the martial…
In April 2022, the Metropolitan Police did something no force had done to a serving British prime minister before: they fined him. Boris Johnson had broken the lockdown rules his…
