On Sunday as the Taliban took over Kabul, the capital, the US state department announced that all US embassy staff had been evacuated to Hamid Karzal International Airport which was under US military control. People are scared and think things could go wrong at any moment. The face-covering was mandatory for all women under Taliban…
Zhao Lijian, who has 1 million followers on Twitter and legions of supporters inside China, was slapped down by hi superiors although he was the spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, quoted on Twitter in March that “the Covid-19 virus had originated in the US and suggested that Washington was engaged in a cover-up. When did…
The Darkest hour of Pandemic arrived on September 21, 2020 for Jeremy Farrar, a global expert in infectious disease control, one of the UK’s leading scientists, head of the Wellcome Trust, and a member of the SAGE emergency committee, describes how it feels as one of the key scientists at the sharp end of a…
This is the story of jeans from cotton plant nested in the soil to the flares hanging in your wardrobes. A revealing book about the birth and death of jeans that exposes the fractures of our global supply chains, and our relationships to each other, ourselves and the planet. Did you buy your jeans on…
Nany-state scheme would cost shoppers £4.8billion a year according to John O’Connell head of the Taxpayer’s alliance who said “ This is yet another case of middle-class meddling that will hit the poorest families hardest”. The processed food market is valued £200 billion and the food and drink service sector is close to 70 billion.…
Jair Bolsonaro, is a low profile congressman for decades, former soldier and Army captain surprisingly won the 2018 Brazilian election, as the rise and rule of his nationalist, pro-business chauvinist, environmentally sceptical administration. The divisive presidential campaign saw fake news and misinformation shared with Bolsonaro’s tens of millions of social media followers. Bolsonaro promised simple…
Growth stagnant, inequality rising , Crisis seems to follow crisis, the environment is suffering and Covid-19 pandemic has exposed every crack in the system. The answer is to create a better capitalism by understanding and harnessing the power of creative destruction innovation that disrupts, but that over the past two hundred years has also lifted…
Covid-19 killed millions already, hundred of millions of people are impoverished, and economic prospects across are being ruined, with death and recession to forefront. Rescue from Global Crisis is about how Covid19 rescue humanity. Ian Goldin, professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford, details an optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 which has…
British academic, Benjamin T Smith in The Dope exposes how an illicit industry that started with farmers, families and healers came to be dominated by cartels, kingpins and corruption. Smith traces the characters whose actions came to influence Mexico as we now know it. Enrique Fernandez, the borderlands trafficker who became Mexico’s first narco and…
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, professor emerita of six separate disciplines at the University of Illinois, Chicago an Economic historian, in her latest book on the Great Enrichment and the betterment of the poor -not just materially but spiritually, gives a intellectual and rigorous analysis with focus on human rather than the institutions. She asserts her vision…