For modern urbanized society, in which economic growth and personal success are dominant values, there is no reason to suppose that crime rates will not continue to increase."{{B}}IS THIS VIEW TOO NEGATIVE {{/B}} Is the situation really all that bad Do not some localities report crime,...
Reuters: The latest 2023 map released by China shows a 10-dash line in the South China Sea including two dashes east and southeast of Taiwan. In the map submitted by China to the UN in 2009, there were just 9 dashes. Malaysia, India as well as the Philippines have protested against thi...
What is infuriating is to witness the chronic poverty, the lack of access to water, the absence of decent infrastructure or income generating opportunities, the deteriorating health system and the corrupt governance and put it into perspective with the fact that organisations such as mine at the t...
and with good reason. The Queen’s family has failed in a number of ways. Many of her roles have been reconciling across divisions and basic respect for other nations and she has done a good job mainly in spite of the grandeur of the monarchical establishment and the repeated failures of ...
What is the common denominator, what is the rationale behind the anarchy, and what is the reason why a president would so willingly rend the fabric of America? Why would the government privilege the illegal alien over the law-abiding citizen? The violent pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic foreign-born ...
The surge in mortality was “beyond the peacetime experience of industrialised countries”. While it was boom time for the new oligarchs, poverty and unemployment surged; prices were hiked dramatically; communities were devastated by deindustrialisation; and social protections were stripped away.1,2 In...
Functionally, fair people are more intelligent than unfair people, because unfair people reject things their reason tells them are true. Dershowitz is smart, and he knows more about law than I ever will. He’s like a student who never stopped cramming for the bar exam. I mean a student ...
It is said that food rationing imposed during British wartime was the reason for the food’s international poor reputation. Modern British cuisine has been influenced by many TV chefs including Delia Smith, Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay and my personal favourite, Nigel Slater Some British cuisine cla...