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December 17, 2018
Doubly illegal
For some years now, the Israeli trend following Palestinian attacks on soldiers and civilians has been to build more illegal settlements. After two Israeli soldiers were shot dead by a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank amid an upsurge of attacks in the area, the pattern continues.In response to the attacks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will look at ways to legalize thousands of illegal West Bank settlement ...
December 16, 2018
Racism on and off the field
It would be easy to say that after Raheem Sterling of Manchester City became the latest victim of racist abuse, there’s something’s morally wrong with only a small bunch of Chelsea football fans. But the ugly truth is that racism is still very much alive in British football and British society.There were 520 less than pleasing incidents in the 2017-18 season, up from 469 in 2016-17. Most of these reports ...
December 14, 2018
Twitter boss discovers his inner idiocy
UNLIKE their Robber Baron railroad, banking and industrialist predecessors, US IT moguls such as Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs were predominantly young when they came into great fortunes. Silicon Valley went on to produce a new generation of youthful billionaires who were lauded by the media, as much for their often tofu-munching, keep-fit lifestyles as for their innovations. Perhaps it was inevitable that, as has happened with so many ...
December 13, 2018
A forlorn bit of foreign policy
US President Donald Trump has a stunning record for hyperbole and apparently shooting from the mouth, speaking, or more usually tweeting first and then, perhaps, thinking later. Yet this controversial leader has established a pattern of action which is hard for his political enemies, who are many, to tackle. Basically Trump is proud to boast that he doesn’t “do” politics. He presents himself as the antithesis of a seasoned politician. ...
December 12, 2018
Modi shoots the messenger
Most dramatically expanding economies have done so on the back of borrowing because, as national incomes increase, there are more and more institutions ready to lend and to invest in this growth. China and India have been no exception to this.However, whereas in China the Communist government has complete control of the economy, including financial sector regulation, since India decided to go for growth and international expansion, successive governments in ...
December 11, 2018
Trump’s new Chinese gauntlet
The arrest in Canada of a senior executive of the Chinese communications firm Huawei on a warrant issued by the United States was always set to bring a quick end to the temporary trade war truce agreed between the Chinese and American presidents at the G20 only days before.Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei’s founder and now its chief financial officer, was detained in Vancouver when she was changing planes. ...
December 10, 2018
Car accidents don’t seem to matter
If any more chilling statistics were needed on traffic accidents, here are a few more: Road injuries are now the biggest killer of children and young adults worldwide, and have also moved up to the eighth leading cause of death in the world for people of all ages.These are the latest facts from the World Health Organization. Will they make a difference? The evidence suggests they will not. For the ...
December 9, 2018
Netanyahu won’t leave quietly
Indictment or no indictment, it will not be easy for Benjamin Netanyahu to be ousted as Israel’s prime minister, even after police recently recommended indicting him and his wife for fraud, bribery and breach of trust. His own Likud Party is with him, the other parties in the ruling coalition seem to support him and according to the polls, despite the scandals, he would win elections next year.Netanyahu remains popular ...
December 6, 2018
Hard knocks for European Mafiosi
It has been a bad week for international crime bosses. A two-year operation by European police forces just came to a triumphant end when law officers in Belgium, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands swooped on Mafia operations. At least 90 suspects were detained. Over three tons of cocaine and 140 kilograms were seized along with millions of euros. The mobsters targeted in this apparently painstaking “Operation Pollino” belonged to the crime ...
December 6, 2018
Macron loses his way
The French are paying a high price for keeping the racist Marine Le Pen out of the Élysée Palace in last summer’s presidential election. Le Pen and her since-renamed far-right National Front promised a range of generous incentives for voters which were widely mocked as being completely unaffordable by a France already burdened by excessively open-handed health, welfare and social security systems.The only alternative was Emmanuel Macron, the clean-cut banker, ...
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