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Theresa May
Brexit leads to the exit
Even though Brexit dominated her time at 10 Downing Street, Theresa May could not in the end deliver on her pledge to steer Britain out of the European Union, leaving her successor to try to finish the job. The problem is whether May’s replacement will have better luck in delivering what she could not. In her almost three years in office, May, who said she will quit as Conservative leader on June 7, tried valiantly to deliver on the will of the people’s referendum and take Britain out of the EU while suffering as little damage as possible. But it soon emerged that unraveling 45 years of relations with the bloc was more complicated than previously thought and fraught with potholes. The quest that consumed May’s tenure as prime minister began well enough. Although she was...
May 25, 2019

Brexit leads to the exit

Modi’s new mandate
AS his surprise landslide win became clear on Thursday Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised that his second five-year term would see an inclusive government. This sentiment is common to most newly-victorious politicians. Nevertheless, it must be hoped that Modi recognizes that over the last five years, extremists in his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have fostered dangerous divisions, particularly with the Muslim community. Indians need to define themselves purely as citizens of their great country. A unified India can take pride in its economic and technological achievements and look to advance to claim its place as an economic superpower. Investors were certainly pleased by the BJP’s unexpected triumph. On Monday after exit polls predicted an easy Modi victory, the Bombay...
May 24, 2019

Modi’s new mandate

Sino-US trade war hots up
Given President Donald Trump’s reluctance to read any briefing that takes up more than one side of a piece of paper and his addiction to sending short tweets, it is unlikely that he himself wrote much of his best-selling book “The Art of the Deal”. But whoever put together his thoughts produced a work that ought to tell those who come up against Trump a great deal about what he is going to do next. The Chinese, however, work to different criteria and indeed a different time span. Even if the leadership in Beijing studied the book, they probably concluded that the man in the White House is a loud-mouthed vulgarian entirely lacking in subtlety and with no appreciation for the very Chinese value of “Face” - the protection of all-important reputation. The increasingly...
May 21, 2019

Sino-US trade war hots up

Bluster in the face of failure
Boeing, the world’s largest aircraft maker, is in a serious jam. On Thursday civil aviation regulators from Brazil, Canada, China, and EU will join US Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) officials to review Boeing’s efforts to fix the software on it 737 Max aircraft, two of which have crashed in Indonesia and Ethiopia killing 346 passengers and crew. All 400 of the 737 Max aircraft Boeing has sold from an original order book of over 5,000, are currently grounded. Given the US lawsuits piling up against it not simply from bereaved relatives but also airlines facing massive losses, it was not surprising Boeing was slow to admit that the cause of both crashes was almost certainly the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS). Thanks to a false sensor reading, this...
May 20, 2019

Bluster in the face of failure

Eurovision ruse
The just concluded Eurovision song contest rarely passes off without some kind of controversy. This year the issue was the location of the event itself: Tel Aviv. While Israel was trying to show off its sunny Mediterranean beaches, it was also using Eurovision as a cover as it strives to escape from its responsibility for the tragedy called the occupation. All the singing and dancing at Eurovision could not hide this ugly reality. Although Israel is not in Europe, it hosted Eurovision for two reasons. Last year the contest was won by an Israeli singer and because the winning nation gets to host the following year’s contest, this year Eurovision set up shop in Tel Aviv. Secondly, Israel qualified for the competition because the Israel Broadcasting Authority is a member of the...
May 19, 2019

Eurovision ruse

Israeli disinformation
Fake accounts have proliferated on Facebook, Twitter and other major online platforms with the aim of swaying political opinion in many countries and leaving the companies scrambling to respond. The latest source of these fake accounts: Israel. Facebook has said it detected dozens of its accounts that were engaging in what it called “coordinated inauthentic behavior”, another way of saying election interference and other forms of public manipulation via news and social media. This is the first time Facebook says it’s detected such activity from Israel, and Facebook even names an Israeli commercial entity, Archimedes Group, that it says was behind the behavior. Facebook has now banned Archimedes Group, purging 65 Israeli accounts, 161 pages, dozens of groups and four Instagram...
May 18, 2019

Israeli disinformation

Dead woman walking
UK Prime Minister Theresa May cuts a tragic figure. She inherited a Conservative majority from David Cameron when he resigned after Britain voted to leave the European Union. Promising voters that “Brexit means Brexit”, May called a snap election, to strengthen her hand in leave negotiations in Brussels. It was political folly of the first order. Her party lost its overall majority and could only stay in government with the support of ten truculent MPs from Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party. EU negotiators were never going to make it easy for the UK to become the first member state to break away. They trashed May’s proposal that future trade relations should be discussed alongside the British departure deal. They forced her to accept a $47 billion exit bill....
May 15, 2019

Dead woman walking

Sri Lanka must remember hideous lessons of Myanmar
The Islamophobic violence in Sri Lanka is shameful. One man has been slashed to death with machetes, mosques attacked and Muslim-owned shops looted and torched. To its credit, the government has reacted strongly and the security forces have behaved robustly.The chief of police, Chandana Wickramaratne, warned on television that his officers would respond to rioting mobs with maximum force. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe appealed for calm. In doing so, he made the interesting point that the violence was interfering with police investigations into the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks by the local Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) cell. Certainly, from the point of view of limited police resources, having to tie up officers to defend the Muslim community from further assault is not...
May 14, 2019

Sri Lanka must remember hideous lessons of Myanmar

Time to call out Big Pharma
The pharmaceutical industry is owed a substantial debt of gratitude by everyone around the world. Its products have cured deadly diseases or improved the quality of life for billions. But this gratefulness has always needed to be qualified. Drug companies are not charities. They have to make a profit both for their shareholders and to invest in research for new effective medicines. A standard industry argument is that it can cost at least $1 billion merely to develop a single drug. There is first the expense of research. Different compounds must be put together and tested. Along the way, many hundreds, sometimes thousands of potential drugs fail to work as hoped and the research is abandoned after a huge investment of scientists’ time and effort, to say nothing of the capital...
May 13, 2019

Time to call out Big Pharma

Meatless meat
Let’s face it: People really like meat and efforts to convince meat eaters to consider vegan diets haven’t been very successful, up until now. But now comes vegetarian meat aimed at replacing the real thing. The aim of plant-based “meat” is for it to be so similar to cook and eat as the real thing that it is virtually indistinguishable. It is made from plant proteins, usually wheat, pea or potato. Natural colorings like beetroot juice usually provide the “blood”. These days, most people would probably agree that eating less meat is a good thing, if not for the environment then at least for their bodies. Accordingly, plant-based companies have become appealing to vegans. It’s not that the concept of imitation meat is new. For as long as there have been vegetarians – or...
May 12, 2019

Meatless meat

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