Before 1870, most people lived in dire poverty, the benefits of the slow crawl of invention continually offset by a growing population. Then invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation, and creatively destroying the economy again and again. In Slouching Towards Utopia, Bradford DeLong, one of the world’s leading economists, economics professor, former…
Fifth Twenty20 International, Lahore England Vs Pakistan Pakistan 145 off 19 ov, Rizwan 63 off 46, 2 fours, 3 sixes, Wood 3-20, Curran 2-23, Willey 2-23, Woakes 1-30 England 139-7 off 20 ov Mooen Ali 51 no off 37, 2 fours, 5 sixes, MALAN 36 off 35, 6 fours, Rauf 2-41, Jamal 1-13, Iftikhar…
The fate of the world is in our hands and one has to identify what is important to us, by a method of isolation, as Humanity’s written history spans only five thousand years. Our unwritten future could last for millions more – or it could end tomorrow. Astonishing numbers of people could lead lives of…
23rd September 2022, International Twenty20 Match at Vidarbha Cricket Association, Nagpur India Vs Australia India won the toss and decided to field. Australia. 90-5 off 8 ov Finch 31 off 15, 4 fours, 1 six, Wade 43 not out off 20, 4 fours, 3 sixes, A Patel 2-13, Bumrah 1-23. India 92-4 off 7.2 0v.…
Queen Elizabeth’s coffin is on its final journey to Windsor Castle being driven in the State hearse up the Long Walk. Windsor is a place that she called home and where she and the Duke of Edinburgh spent lockdowns during the pandemic and at St. George’s Chapel for the funeral of her husband just…
Professor Keith Still from Burton-in-Kendal, Cumbria who has been teaching and advising on crowd science for 30 years, helped to plan the five-mile length queue of people shuffling slowly along for between nine and 25 hours, sometimes overnight, patiently waiting to pay respects to the Queen as she lies in state in Westminster Hall. He…
After the end of the cold war, western democracies collided with the rise of a generation of autocrats and populists. The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death as entire societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless contempt…
The Himalayas spanning for over two thousand kilometers through several countries from Pakistan to Myanmar via Nepal, India, Tibet, and Bhutan, where the world’s religions of Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism are interspersed with ancient shamanic beliefs, where different cultures exist in these isolated mountain valleys, Modernity and tradition collide while the great powers fight for…
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a Russian businessman who became Russia’s richest man, was rising fast in the capitalist free-for-all unleashed by Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika and the subsequent collapse of Soviet Communism. In The Russia Conundrum Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once an oil tycoon of Yukos Oil company which has been sold piecemeal to a state rival headed by Putin…
Liz Truss is UK’s third female Prime Minister and becomes UK’s 56th PM. Johnson the outgoing PM in his farewell speech said “Get Behind Truss”. The Prime Minister was appointed by the Queen at Balmoral Castle. Earlier Boris Johnson tendered his resignation to the monarch after travelling separately to Scotland. It is understood that the…