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Is the Boeing 737 Max safe?
It has long been true that per passenger mile, flying is by far and away the safest way to travel. This comforting reality owes a great deal to the close cooperation between national civil aviation authorities, together with the work of the International Air Transport Association and its 290 airline members.It has almost always been the case that civil aviation authorities work together, agreeing risk assessments and policies to ensure the integrity and safety of air travel. Thus when there is a serious difference of opinion, the issue in question deserves closer attention.The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has decided that despite two deadly crashes in just five months, it will not follow the majority of other national civil aviation authorities and ground Boeing’s 737 Max...
March 14, 2019

Is the Boeing 737 Max safe?

Pandora’s box
It is 30 years ago this week that the World Wide Web came into being. And the man who created it is not impressed with how it has turned out.The British scientist, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the web envisaged that his new, intuitive method for people to share views and information would be an absolute force for good. He has been telling interviewers that for the first 15 years, this was largely the case. However, now he is warning that the web is on a ”downward plunge into a dysfunctional future”.His key concerns are the manipulation of data such as that uncovered about Cambridge Analytica’s exploitation of highly personal information gleaned from millions of Facebook users, massive data breaches and malign hacking. He also expresses his horror at the sheer nastiness of people...
March 13, 2019

Pandora’s box

India going back to the future?
In the coming two months, 900 million Indians, by far the world’s largest democratic electorate, will be deciding on a new government. The choice will not be easy. Though at the last election in 2014, there were around 140 different parties fielding candidates, the contest boiled down to the Congress party, which had dominated Indian politics since 1947 independence, and the aggressively Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Narendra Modi.The BJP won five years ago mainly because of voter weariness with Congress party rule overseen by successive members of the Gandhi family. Corruption had become endemic. Congress governance, though ushering in key reforms that saw the economy begin to take off, appeared to be failing. Trust in the party’s ability to bring real change had ebbed...
March 12, 2019

India going back to the future?

Trump doing Palestinians a favor
If US President Donald Trump soon signs a free speech order for college campuses across America, as he said he would, he will be in effect allowing students, faculty and guests to air their views on any given number of topics. That would presumably include the Palestine cause – even though that issue was probably the last thing on Trump’s mind when he decided on the order. Not after he recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, cut off Palestinian aid and is asking the Palestinians to accept his upcoming deal with Israel that Palestinians probably cannot accept. Rather, Trump was more concerned about complaints from those on the right and far right who for years have claimed that universities shun their ideas.Trump had in mind people like Hayden Williams, a conservative activist,...
March 11, 2019

Trump doing Palestinians a favor

Criticizing US policy on Israel is fair game
The US House of Representatives has just passed a historic vote, the first to condemn anti-Muslim bigotry in American history. But in truth, the 407-23 resolution had almost nothing to do with Islamophobia in America. The issue was literally shoved into the resolution as an afterthought to get to the real topic: condemning anti-Semitism. The real issue was how to respond to freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar’s recent comments suggesting House supporters of Israel have dual allegiances which had been roiling in the House for weeks.In recent days, Omar has been attacked as an anti-Semite by Republicans and top members of her own Democratic Party. It is no surprise that Omar is the target of such smears given that she was the first member of Congress to openly support BDS – the boycott, divestment...
March 10, 2019

Criticizing US policy on Israel is fair game

Folding phones for fashionistas
TECHNOLOGY’S link to fashion is now a given and is no more evident than in that most personal of items, the smartphone. Phone calls and texts were once the most that consumers could hope for on trusty, bombproof devices such as the ubiquitous Nokia. Until Apple unveiled the iPhone, most people didn’t even know they wanted it. But in January 2007 the world of mobile telephony was changed for ever. The iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy that followed it were effectively computers in the hand. They enabled mobile business, high-resolution photography, videoconferencing on the move, music and games. Most particularly, they unleashed the power of social media, to the extent that many users now seem to spend more time looking at images on their phone screens than at real people. Apple remained...
March 07, 2019

Folding phones for fashionistas

The dangers of driving the EU vision too fast
At first sight, it seems extraordinary that the UK, one of the main members of the EU, is due to leave the Union in just 22 days time possibly without agreement. Yet one of the defining characteristics of all Brussels negotiations is the last-minute deal, cut after all-night talks from which politicians and officials emerge for the camera, exhausted but apparently triumphant.These eleventh-hour settlements are partly a consequence of having to bring the representatives of 28 different countries on board. But there is something more about the present brinkmanship to which a weak British prime minister with a deeply-divided UK parliament snapping at her heels is being exposed. It has very largely been Brussels that has imposed the awkward terms on which the UK can quit the EU on March 29....
March 07, 2019

The dangers of driving the EU vision too fast

No more excuses for Brazilian miners
Opencast mines are awesome in the way that explosives, massive high-pressure water jets and huge machines are used to tear away whole mountains to extract iron, coal or other minerals. For every ton of ore produced, much larger quantities of unwanted earth and wastewater are moved off the site into huge cofferdams.It was one such dam in southeastern Brazil which collapsed this January sending a tsunami of mud surging down onto the mining town of Brumadinho. More than 300 people perished. This week the bosses of the giant Brazilian mining company Vale, which owns the mine, have been removed after evidence emerged that management were warned the structure had become unstable. Known as an “upstream” dam, it is actually built of the same waste material, the “tailings”, that it was...
March 06, 2019

No more excuses for Brazilian miners

The international community is failing Bangladesh and the Rohingya
It is hard to blame the Bangladeshi government for losing patience with the international community. At the weekend it said that it would no longer take in Rohingya refugees fleeing ethnic cleansing from across the border in Myanmar’s Rakhine province.Bangladesh is currently giving generous and much needed shelter to almost three quarters of a million Muslim Rohingya. These people have been driven from their homes by racist Buddhist fanatics with the clear connivance of the Myanmar military and most egregiously, under the indulgent gaze of 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi. At the end of this month, she will celebrate three years as effective leader.In January 2018, Dhaka cut a deal with the Myanmar government for the return of 1,500 Rohingya each week with the idea all...
March 05, 2019

The international community is failing Bangladesh and the Rohingya

The truth about Gaza is out
The horror of what Israel did last year in Gaza, detailed in the recently released UN investigative report, cannot be adequately described in a few lines, but the evidence shows that the scale and impact of Israeli violence dwarfed anything allegedly done by the Palestinians.From March 30-December 31, 2018, when Palestinians were protesting in the Great March of Return for the declared right of Palestinian refugees to return to their ancestral homes in what is now Israel, the report said Israeli forces killed 189 Palestinians and wounded more than 6,100. Despite the staggering number of casualties, that was only the beginning of the story.Thirty-five children were killed. Two journalists were killed. Three “clearly-marked” paramedics were killed. A double amputee was shot and killed as...
March 04, 2019

The truth about Gaza is out

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