Adequate impoverishment
The conventional wisdom says that the driving force for social change will be the poorest and most disabled because they have nothing to lose. I am afraid that is an…
Operation interrupted
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A non-american world order
So instead of a New World Order, we are looking at a slightly different world order. Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt are publicly abandoning their alliance with Atlantic civilisation and…
Innovation or decay
“Stripping comes to seem like a cool accessory — something with which to burnish your resume and make yourself look more interesting than the average MBA-seeker”, writes Kat Rosenfield at…
Jan Keller: A politics without promises of prosperity
It is part of the basic political alphabet that before elections people should be promised prosperity. Different parties on the political spectrum may (indeed, must) differ in their prescriptions for…
Women, children and the poor
When a ship is sinking, women and children get into the lifeboats first. There’s no discussion about that. It’s a basic moral principle within our civilization. Nor is there any…