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David Hellqvist tries to make sense of the sartorial choices of World Leaders in his column The Spin

  • Sebastián Piñera

    The Spin | Sebastián Piñera

    Everyone else jumped on the bandwagon so why shouldn’t The Spin be allowed? The Chilean mine crisis might be over but President Sebastián Piñera has just...

  • Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

    The Spin | Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

    When JóhannaSigurðardóttir lost the Icelandic Social Demcocrat party’s leadership election in 1994 she famously said “Minn tími mun koma”, meaning “my time...

  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

    The Spin | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the President of Brazil

    uiz Inácio Lula da Silva: don’t you just want to snuggle him? And they call him Lula! Politicians aren’t meant to be cuddly, they’re supposed to look like Dick...

  • President Hamid Karzai walks down the carpet as he is welcomed to the Afghan National Police Training Centre Kabul, Afghanistan

    The Spin | Hamid Karzai, Afghan President

    Once labelled “the most chic man in the world” by Tom Ford, Afghan president Hamid Karzai has a lot to live up to. Since taking power shortly after the US-led...

  • julia Gillard as Rosie The Riveter, Campaign poster

    The Spin | Australian President, Julia Gillard

    It’s an elite group, but to Argentina, Germany, Finland and the seven other countries that have female presidents or prime ministers, we can now add Australia.

  • Raul Castro, left, with Ernesto “Che” Guevara, 1958

    The Spin | Raul Castro

    It’s not unusual for politicians to keep it in the family: currently there are two Milibands running for Labour leader; the past two decades of American...

  • Vladimir Putin in combat

    The Spin | Vlad's Castle

    Vladimir, oh Vladimir, where have you been for the last few years? What was that? You had to resign as president of Russia and become the country’s prime...

  • Yukio and Miyuki Hatoyama met Barack and Michelle Obama at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC on September 23, 2009

    The Spin | Yukio Hatoyama

    Today, the topic of discussion is Japan’s Prime Minister – known to many as old, you know, whatshisname. But while Yukio Hatoyama might not be the most...