Add Brazil to the list of countries embracing far-right authoritarian politics. Former Army captain  won the country’s presidential election on Sunday, riding a wave of frustration over corruption and crime that brought a dramatic swing to the right in the world’s fourth-largest democracy, official results show. With 94 per cent of the ballots counted, Bolsonaro had 56 per cent of …

Just like every other right-thinking, virtue-signalling big mouth here in the US, I am appalled – appalled! – at President Donald Trump’s refusal to call out that thuggish Prince Mohammed bin Salman over Jamal Khashoggi’s murder at Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul. But my righteous anger just can’t get seem to get airborne. The thing is, Mr Trump’s coddling of …

Americans William Nordhaus and Paul Romer have won the 2018 Nobel Economics Prize for work in integrating climate change and technological innovation into economic analysis, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. Proceedings have been overshadowed by the absence of the literature prize, postponed to give the Swedish Academy time to restore public trust after a sexual assault scandal. Mr …

Brett Kavanaugh has been sworn in as a US Supreme Court justice, just hours after the Senate backed President Donald Trump’s nominee 50 votes to 48. Even as Mr Kavanaugh took his oath of office in a quiet private ceremony, not long after the narrowest Senate confirmation in nearly 150 years, protesters chanted outside the court building across the street …