Where are the leaders the world needs to be found? Leaders nowadays concentrate on narrow national interests and ignore trans-national problems. The situation is getting more serious. America, China, India and other leading countries are not willing to take on the role of world leader at present.

World leaders must have had a bit of fright when they saw Gaddafi’s last moments on the box.

The 66th UN General Assembly is about to convene in New York. Who needs this useless talking shop for politicians and diplomats?

Adam Lovejoy writes: You may not know this but most world leaders had a low key holiday this year, in line with the general ‘austerity approach’ to things. Still, I bet a lot of you out there are wondering what they actually do when they are away from their desks. Do they let their hair down, for example, or drink and take drugs and stage wild sex orgies? Or do they spend countless hours looking in the mirror, playing PC [...]

Anton Goryunov writes from Moscow: As Prime Minister Vladimir Putin reveals that during his recent meeting with the 10 Russian spies, who had been arrested in the United States and later exchanged for 4 American agents, he sang patriotic songs with them, with a live band playing in the background, we ask: could it be that world leaders are actually prone to singing along with others? Because it can’t be that only Mr Putin likes to belt out a couple [...]