Nairobi to Rio … by the scenic route
At the beginning of the year, I paid my rates on our three plots of land in Kenya. To my annoyance, they have doubled
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Eric Boa
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How to Become an Empire
China’s journey from poor and powerless to rich and regal has been swift and dramatic. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
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Stoker
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Reaping the Harvest
It’s a bit early yet to be sounding off about long-term behavioural changes brought about by Covid - not that that will stop anybody
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Kalliopi Venieri
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Meeting Rudolf Nureyev (part 1) - His Leap to Freedom
He was perhaps the greatest male dancer of the 20th century, certainly the most famous. His leap to freedom, an event at the heart of world
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Richard Pooley
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Why won’t politicians say “Yes” or “No”?
Something minor but bizarre involving a senior British politician happened last Sunday morning. No, for once, the wretched charlatan, Boris
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Lynda Goetz
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Selfish or not? The kids question
For some while now there has been an ongoing debate about whether or not it is selfish to have children.
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Richard Pooley
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Let Them In! We Need Them.
Already we Brits are forgetting her, even those few of us who take an interest in Germany and what’s happening there.
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Michael Carberry
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Northern Ireland and the toxic legacy of Brexit
The resignation of Boris Johnsons’ Brexit Minister, Lord Frost before Christmas and his replacement by the Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss, has
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Eric Boa
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The Road to Everywhere
I’ve spent a lot of my working life on the road, an inevitable consequence of a long career in international development...
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Stoker
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Distant Wooded Moors
Many years ago your correspondent had the privilege of receiving some tuition from the late great professor Charles K Rowley, a Hayekian...
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