BBCNEWS Unspun July 2, 2024
there have been discussions about how to share the middle east, essentially. it's pretty tenuous. the saudis have been fighting a five, six, seven—year war in yemen against the iranian—backed houthis, without success. british politics, which has always seemed so stable, even predictable compared with the politics of the rest of europe, appeared to have settled down again after eight or nine years of chaos. since the brexit referendum in 2016, eight years ago, there've been no fewer than five prime ministers, all from the conservative party. now the opinion polls suggest the labou...