Ebrahim Raisi wins a rigged election in Iran. What next?
Jun 19th 2021“THE HEART of elections is competition—if you take that away it becomes a corpse,” said Hassan Rouhani, the president of Iran, last month. To many Iranian voters, though, the presidential election on June 18th was more like a joke. In the days before the vote, some posted images on social media of Ebrahim…
Kenneth Kaunda was a bad Zambian leader but a great ex-president
Jun 18th 2021SOME LEADERS are born to greatness. Some rise to it in office. And some achieve it only after they have stepped down. One such was Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding president, who died on June 17th at the age of 97.Mr Kaunda, the son of a Church of Scotland minister and a schoolteacher, first…