Beirut explosion: The disaster was exceptional but events leading up to it were not.
4 min readAbandoned containers of hazardous goods are found regularly in ports.
Reviewing the front pages — 7 August 2020.
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The racism faced by teenagers in the UK.
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Who is reopening schools?
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Reviewing the front pages — 6 August 2020.
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Fact-checking our “overcrowded” island.
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Rather than resilience, the Lebanese may now try cold rage to force change.
3 min readThe wretchedness of their plight and their growing anger raises a question: Are the Lebanese really as stoic as is always claimed?
Nonsense about New Zealand trade deal.
3 min readWhat can we sell to New Zealand that we couldn’t before?
Brexit, Australian style: Will leaving the EU breathe new life into an old friendship?
13 min readAfter neglecting its old ally for years, Global Britain is suddenly in need of mates.
Is Dr Fauci a savvy enough public servant?
3 min readIn times of global pandemic, who would you trust most – Top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci or Donald Trump? Rashmee Roshan Lall explains why the former has political acumen and the latter lacks it.
The exceptional nation?
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Facts and beliefs.
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Why Liam Fox is unsuitable to lead the WTO.
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Sinan and his lost pound.
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Where the election (might) stand.
4 min readIf you try to analyze the Electoral College numbers to see where the U.S. presidential race stands, well, you could go blind. I tried. Here is what I learned.
Facts and beliefs.
4 min readI’m done with Brexit. I was on the losing side, and it hurts, but I have to have some strength to fight the next battle, the biggest there is...
The determination that’s needed.
6 min readBoris Johnson is going to Scotland where he’ll keep out of the way of Scottish voters in carefully stage managed events, take a couple of questions from the press, then wheech back to London in a flying fridge painted in the colours of the union flag.
Let’s get going Scotland.
6 min readThe British Government has launched a new slogan to prepare for Brexit: Let’s Get Going. Who’d have thought that the slime bag in chief for the YooKay Michael Gove would have come up with a slogan so ideally suited to Scottish independence?