Are ‘traditional social and political ties’ weak? Have they always been so and will they be so in the future? These are questions that certainly cannot be answered in one page. At first sight, the thesis is credible when one sees how political parties today struggle to convince people, how trade u

Today the world is reverting to its habitual, normal anarchic state, albeit preserving its rigid

has demonstrated disastrous consequences in isolationist, unprepared and anarchic responses to the

Meanwhile, the top court's registrar's office said" no suo motu[ notice] has been taken".... The statement comes shortly after reports that the SC had taken notice of the storming of Sindh House a day earlier.... They also carried lotas in protest against" turncoats". Read: Storming of the Sindh HousePetition In the plea filed with the Supreme Court on Thursday, the SCBA cited statements from the prime minister wherein he had said" I will fight against them until[ my last breath]....

Royal authorRichard Aldrich has revealed the secret involvement of the British Royal Family in the shadowy world of international espionage in a new book The Secret Royals.... The book, co-authored with researcher Rory Cormac, has detailed the" active" role Queen Elizabeth II plays in the security community as a" diplomat" and" top spymaster." Mr Aldrich has described the new book as the" Royal Family seen through the eyes of 007." Professor Aldrich told The Royal Beat:" The Secret Royals reall

Join our Whatsapp channel Illustration by Abro After his ouster from power in 2022, Imran Khan decided to roar back to power by operating from outside the country’s mainstream political paradigm.... But it often fails to dismantle or demolish it.... Khan, his supporters, and his newfound activist admirers are all trying to storm mainstream politics from the outside....

Opposition leaders — PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman — have reached the Supreme Court for the hearing on a plea filed by Supreme Court Bar Association( SCBA) seeking the SC's intervention to prevent" anarchy" ahead of the no-trust vote against Prime Minister Imran Khan.... On Saturday, a two-judge SC bench comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial and Justice Munib Akhtar had issued notices to the ruling PTI,

ICELAND'S boss has blasted cops after staff were threatened with" guns, knives and hammers" in a shoplifting" epidemic". Supermarket boss Richard Walker, executive chairman of Iceland Foods, blamed police inaction for an" epidemic" in shoplifting.... READ MORE SUN STORIES BRAND' RAPE' CLAIMS Brand accused of rape sexual assaults by 4 women including one at 16' DISGUSTING' Dad appalled by' disgusting' present his daughter brought home from school And Primark has brought in bodycams for staff as

Quentin Blake, the greatest living illustrator here or anywhere else, has a new exhibition.... Portraits, Playhouses and People – a collaboration with his friend Linda Kitson, an old friend-at the Bankside Gallery, quite different from his familiar work.... Is there anything to be said for old age?...

The Valdai International Discussion Club has been studying global alternatives to the traditional neoliberal mainstream and the influence on transformations in the world. Initially we focused on various non-Western movements (Chinese, Turkish, Arab, Latin American, BRICS related, and others).