Turkey’s strongman is far from all-powerful, and he is risking an almighty backlash.
It would be a hazardous balancing act, but he has a slight edge over his opponents.
Honourable countries face up to the consequences of their actions. They don’t, like dilatory schoolboys late with their essays, simply ask for more time.
The odds are stacking ever higher against the man who has dominated his country’s politics for years.
The man his critics call the ‘Viktator’ has two new policies – one a gimmick, one deeply sinister.
A wise US president with a clever plan would be able to reduce the risks. But this one may well squander the opportunity for a peaceful return to democracy.
Why should the EU offer any more to an inconstant departing member, which can’t be relied on to deliver ratification of any agreement?
This autocratic thuggery is happening less than two hours’ flight away. We must not turn a blind eye to it.
The Gilets Jaunes protests are not just a challenge to his tax policy, but to the democratically elected government of France. He must hit back.
The numbers in the Knesset are finely balanced, and the search is on for a figurehead to end Netanyahu’s decade in power.
What would the lesser men who would bring her down have done: put migrants on sealed trains in their tens of thousands and send them – where, exactly?
The killing gives Turkey’s autocrat the opportunity to make common cause with the Saudi prince’s enemies.
Both the type and quantity of migration that is desirable would be better decided at a more local level.
The Hungarian Prime Minister has violated democratic norms, and exploited British taxpayers’ money to enrich his elite. Why protect him?
The immediate effect of the election will be a period of fraught negotiation, but it might not be a bad change in the long-term.