The different factions in the battle for the succession to Keir Starmer’s throne have adopted a one-month truce, awaiting whether the Mayor of Manchester, Andy Burnham, defeats or not Farage’s far-right in the contest for the vacant Makerfield seat in the House of Commons. That small town of one hundred thousand inhabitants is going to decide the fate of the entire United Kingdom.

Emmanuel Macron emerged in 2017 as a political anomaly in France. And he is on track to end up the same way. The French president managed to be elected by making his way against all odds between the two major political forces at the time: the Socialist Party (PS), whose government he had been part of as Minister of Economy under the presidency of François Hollande, and The Republicans (LR), the latest brand of the Gaullist movement, whose last two presidents had been Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy. It was a radical shift in axis.

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, the two most powerful men in the world, do not think about us. During the two days they have spent together in Beijing, they have smiled a lot and been showered with praise, but they have not said anything in favor of a better, less violent, and more sensible world. Not a word…