Economic long term Stagflation

Economy is bothered about demography, although ageing and shrinking of the population across the world is a striking and a new phenomenon on the human history. Demographic and globalisation will reverse three multi-decade global trends  and will raise inflation and interest rate, but lead to a pullback in equality.  Whatever the future holds it is…

New tunnel linking Kent and Essex will add 5m tonnes of CO2

A British government report published in March provisionally estimated the UK carbon emissions in 2019 to be 351.5 million tonnes. The traffic created by the road is expected to generate 3.2 million tonnes over 60 years. The Lower Thames crossing (LTC) the UK’s biggest roads project since the M25, a flagship project in the UK’s…

Holding Power to Account

  Barber’s diaries offer close up view of challenges of editing and of leadership in an age of upheaval, an engaging chronicle of the 14 years at  the FT’s helm. The real scoop isn’t on the front page – Lionel Barber as FT editor for the tech boom,  who whispered or yelled what into the…

Silent Night

“Echoing through the world each Yuletide” Review of “Silent Night – A Song for The World”. Available now on the following platforms:- AMAZON PRIME VIDEO APPLE TV GOOGLE PLAY ITUNES MICROSOFT FILMS & TV SKY STORE This documentary story about the creation of the song “Silent Night” opens on December 24, 1818.  The song that…

Frank Pizza Hut co-founder dead

Frank Carney (82), Pizza Hut’s co-founder died on Wednesday of Pneumonia. Frank Carney and his brother, Dan, started the company when Frank was a 19-year-old Wichita State University student near their family’s grocery store in Kansas City. Frank recently recovered from Covid-19 and was also suffering from Alzheimer’s for more than 10 years. The first…

NIthya wins LA City Council election

Urban planner, a homeless advocate, former executive of Time’s UP Entertainment, a non-profit organisation that works against sexual harassment and abuse in the workforce, and activist Nithya V Raman, a 35-year-old resident of Boston with root to Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India has won the City Council election in Los Angeles, USA. In the election, Nitya upset…

World Aids Day

This year the World Aid Day focuses on Global Solidarity, shared responsibility because of the worldwide impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The fight against HIV and Aids was first observed in 1988, World AIDS Day shows support for people living with HIV, along with remembering those who died from an AIDS-related sickness and observed by…

Chang’e-5 mission returns color pictures of the Moon surface

China’s Chang’e-5 lander captured a panoramic colour photographic view that stretches from the lunar soil directly under its legs all the way out to the horizon. The mission which touched down on Tuesday instantly began gathering samples of rock and dust to send back to Earth dispatched up to an orbiting spacecraft which arri8ve home…

Elliot Page announces he is transgender

Ellen Page, Oscar-nominated star of Juno has announced that he is transgender introducing himself as Elliot Page in a social media post. The Canadian-born actor said he could not “begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self. I love that I am trans. And…