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Vladimir Putin and Benyamin Netanyahu (Image: The Times of Israel) If you know of any young and ambitious political enthusiasts, who are living in countries where their leaders in their 70s and 80s are currently hellbent on choosing drones and bombs over diplomacy and handshaking to handle disagreements of ideology and power, please advise them watch and learn from their mindlessness. Right now, we have 74-year-old Benyamin Netanyahu of Israel and an Iranian regime led by 84-year-old Ayatollah Khamenei doing all they can to give the rest of the world one big panic attack just to prove who is wearing the trousers in the Middle East (spoiler alert: neither are). Elsewhere, we have Russia's 71-year-old President Vladimir Putin continuing to impose fear and bombs over Ukraine. Calling all the shots here is 81-year-old US President Joe Biden who feels the need to get involved in everything - whether it is giving (un)limited ammunition to Israel  and Ukraine , or providing aid to Gaza w

Sadiq Khan bids for a third term as Mayor of London (Image: The Guardian) You can tell that a general election is around the corner when the Conservative Party is escalating its attacks on the Labour Party. These recent weeks have two particular Labour figures targeted; one being its Deputy Leader, Angela Rayner, who is under increased scrutiny over the nature of the selling of an ex-council house in Stockport. I won't delve into this story as it is an active case with the local council and police involved, and Rayner strongly denies any wrongdoing. The other who is on the backend of constant criticism by his political rivals is Sadiq Khan, currently running for a third term as Mayor of London. No one has ever won the London mayoral election on more than two occasions. Since it was established in 2000, Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson each won twice, as has Khan. At every election, we have seen the outcome finalised after the second round of counting. This time around, if the pol

A lot is riding on Joe Biden - and Iran - to end the Middle East crises (Image: POLITICO.eu) There have been threats, in recent weeks, of the conflicts taking place in dotted parts of the Middle East 'expanding' to across the region . Whether it is the situation in Gaza, which the current horrors there have been going on for more than 100 days , or what is happening in Yemen and the Red Sea, where the Houthi military group is at loggerheads with ships belonging to the UK, United States and others.  At the heart of these troubles are innocent lives being lost or displaced, and there is little sign, hope or willingness of resolution by those who should be negotiating peaceful solutions. But also at the heart of these are the United States and Iran. For decades, their governments have exchanged countless war of words, and for years, they've ruffled each other's feathers by using proxies and existing forces to needlessly flex their military muscles. These have often been