This post first appeared in the newsletter of the Sensible Centre. Covid lockdowns have had many predictable impacts. But they have also had one surprising…
This post first appeared in the newsletter of the Sensible Centre. Covid lockdowns have had many predictable impacts. But they have also had one surprising…
Twenty years after it started a war against them, America has given Afghanistan back to the Taliban. The Americans would have preferred a transition period…
Failure is meant to an orphan, but the debacle in Afghanistan is prompting an unedifying string of paternity suits. That the Afghanistan mission did fail…
Reading the latest IPCC report about the prospects for global warming has not been easy. Yes, there remains a glimmer of hope, but – when…
On Sunday, August 8, the Afghan Taliban captured three provincial capitals, including Kunduz, the major city in northern Afghanistan, located near the border with Tajikistan…
Of all the surprising encounters… On July 28, 2021, in Tianjin (a city located 50 km south-east of Beijing, towards the Yellow Sea), Wang Yi,…
In August 1967, three months after suffering a crushing defeat at the hands of a daring Israeli army well-equipped with French equipment, the Arab countries…
This is our 10-Point Plan for exiting the covid stalemate. 1. Australian governments should stop trying to eradicate community transmission of the virus. It cannot be eradicated….
The recent report by the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee includes a lengthy reference to the “Trieste Model” of Care. Those who…
On 9 July, the President of the United States repeated his intention to end the American military engagement in Afghanistan, which began in October 2001,…
A letter to Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho, Bukayo Saka, Gareth Southgate and the team The French have a way of acknowledging their admiration of the…
Will the UN, the African Union and the major powers in Africa (United States, China, France, Russia) soon have to deal with the dramatic consequences…