by editor | Oct 10, 2019 | Politics, Weekly Update
Diabetes breakthrough shows there’s hope! Brexit mess shows… something else Our world remains a study in contrasts, and that’s about the most that can be said for it. On the one hand, a breakthrough in the clinical understanding of diabetes...
by editor | Oct 9, 2019 | Top Page Links
By Calum Nicholson, UK Correspondent “You must understand that a world is dying, that old values, the old prejudices, and the old bases of power and prestige are going.” These were the words of Edward R. Murrow to his CBS radio audience in the Autumn of 1940, in...
by editor | Oct 9, 2019 | Top Page Links
Execs for American Big Tech companies including Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon have probably been enjoying a few sleepless nights since the reappointment of Margrethe Vestager, the bare knuckles European competition supremo, to her post as...
by editor | Oct 8, 2019 | Top Page Links
Hopefully the name will make more sense. China’s much-discussed Belt and Road Initiative, seeking to create and strengthen land and maritime infrastructure across Eurasia, has attracted a lot of criticism for saddling low-income...
by editor | Oct 8, 2019 | Finance, Top Page Links
With the EU’s leadership in transition, there are a lot of ideas for the new powers that be to sort through (or ignore, as they case may be) when it comes to reforming the continent’s financial infrastructure. There are also mixed...
