Nobel prize nominations, gushing tributes, and even a “daddy” moniker. The Trump presidencies have changed diplomacy in many ways, especially in the personalisation of US foreign policy – but the ...

Seeing the pictures of the German and Israeli cabinets meeting in Jerusalem this week, the image that crossed my mind was of boxers hugging in the ring. Boxers seem to hug during a fight to gain a ...

Sri Lanka turned 70 on February 4. On February 1, the U.S. Embassy in Colombo put out an effusive press statement, another example of the depths of American obsequiousness when it comes to Sri Lanka.

Yesterday’s address by Australia’s prime minister to a joint sitting of the US Congress was always going to be a cringe-inducing demonstration of complete subservience. But Julia Gillard’s ...

The Queen is revealed by the former home secretary to be without moral defect, possessed of penetrating insight and only an accidental tax dodger Slight, dry and dismally unoriginal though it is, ...

Definition of OBSEQUIOUSNESS • Dictionary meaning of obsequiousness • Words with similar meaning as obsequiousness ...