Columns / Worldbeaters

Bosnian Co-President from Republika Srpska.

The chocolate king of the Ukraine.

We put the track record of Isaias Afwerki, President of Eritrea – and a liberation fighter turned ruthless dictator – under the spotlight.

Saudi Arabia’s King-in-waiting – and his aggressive foreign policy – is put under the spotlight.

Richard Swift takes aim at Sava Kiir Mayardit and Riek Machar, once friends but now foes at the pinnacle of violent South Sudanese politics.

Kim Jong-un's headline grabbing aggressive irrationalism takes some beating (though he might have met his match in recent times...)

Donald Trump's right-hand man is at the centre of global power. And he's dangerous.

Brazil’s oldest president – and architect of his predecessor’s downfall – is put under the spotlight.

Ego? Tick. Money? Tick. Power-hungry? Tick. A disaster for the world? Tick.

The president of the Philippines he may be, but his reputation is as a Dirty Harry of vigilante politics.

Israel’s defence minister is a political chameleon and lightning rod for controversy, among other things.

Hawkish Hillary is a friend of bankers and warmongers, despite her Democratic credentials.

Turkey’s president is one of the political class’s more humourless and intolerant specimens.

The Mexican president may look like butter wouldn't melt... but looks can be deceiving.

German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble: ruthless schemer and reactionary heavyweight.

Behind his fig leaf of respectability, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández hides some dirty secrets.

'Moderate modernizers'? Not so much.

The self-aggrandizing Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.

The Hungarian Prime Minister is put under the spotlight.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi - a big ego backed by military might.