Posts by Tim Marshall

Wednesday, 26 April 2017

Gay sex and politics: sinful?

Is a politician, in a Western liberal democracy, who believes that gay sex is a sin, fit to hold public..

By Tim Marshall

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Countdown to the Russian presidential election

The anti-Kremlin rallies last weekend may not have attracted the numbers of the protests five years ago, but they were..

By Tim Marshall

Thursday, 16 February 2017

Trump's dangerous Syrian safe zones

He said he’d do, it. He repeated he’d do it. Now it looks as if he’s actively looking at the..

By Tim Marshall

Wednesday, 8 February 2017

Why we need Trump in town

Should he be invited on a State Visit? Yes. Should he be invited to address the Houses of Parliament? Yes...

By Tim Marshall

Tuesday, 31 January 2017

The Obama years and the silence of the fans

Imagine the outrage if an American President slammed his predecessor for being too soft on immigration. Imagine he said he..

By Tim Marshall

Wednesday, 11 January 2017

Context is King

To understand news reporting we’ve always needed context, and within the news audience there’s always been a thirst for it...

By Tim Marshall

Friday, 30 December 2016

What does 2017 have in store?

2017 is set to be another bumpy year following on the heels of 12 months which saw the election of..

By Tim Marshall

Tuesday, 6 December 2016

Taiwan and the Trump card

For decades, the USA pretended it didn’t have a close relationship with Taiwan, and for decades China pretended not to..

By Tim Marshall

Wednesday, 9 November 2016

Why Donald Trump won

One of the major explanations of the Trump victory is that it was a white racist backlash. There is some..

By Tim Marshall