France co-hosting the Africa Forward summit with English-speaking Kenya has led some to postulate that French-African relations are changing. Do not believe everything you read.

UK's First-Past-The-Post electoral system is known to favour Labour and the Tories. What is less recognised is that it also denies critical experience to alternative parties, who therefore tend to fail as soon as they get a sniff of power.

EU biggest challenge is its inability to act. Unanimity voting requirements paralyse EU at a time when the ability to act is at a premium.

Since 2016, much of politics in the West been based on a deliberate misreading of the so-called Elephant Curve.