Author: Frank Schnittger

I completed my Masters Thesis on Apartheid some months before Nelson Mandela was released from prison by FW De Klerk in 1989. In it I predicted the imminent demise of apartheid based on changes in the South African economy which...

For all the hype and noise, this election has seen a remarkably consistent trend. If you average all the polls, Clinton has always been ahead, whether by 8 points or 2. Right now she is 4 to 5 points ahead, and it would take a...

The Irish team form a figure of 8 in memory of former Irish international and no.8, Anthony Foley, who died a couple of weeks ago as the All Blacks perform the Haka. The Chicago Cubs aren’t the only team on the cusp of...

The High Court has found that the UK Government cannot trigger Article 50 “by Royal Prerogative” but must seek the approval of Parliament first: The government had argued that it could invoke article 50 without...

Cross posted from the European Tribune In common with many political junkies here, I suspect, I’ve been following the US elections very closely.  And yet, despite having written about 60 stories on US politics in...