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Community work for immigrants?
According to the Press Assocation, Gordon Brown is going to suggest that migrants should be obliged…
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Scottish Executive Aid Programme Has High Admin Costs
According to Nyasa Times: Nearly a third of the £2m spent on Scotland’s Malawi programme has…
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Online identities
A new, open source, distributed identity management service called OpenID is making waves in the online…
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Giving birth in Burkina Faso
On Friday I visited a school, clinic and vocational training centre in Burkina Faso in a…
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Salutory fact of the day
I have just learned from DFID’s Chief Economist, Tony Venables, that the grain required to fill…
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Odious debts and vultures
The British High Court has ruled that Zambia has to make substantial payments on its debt…
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What do they teach head teachers these days?
I heard Des Smith on the BBC this morning. He said: “I was literally hung out…
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BBC downloads to be restricted to Windows
The BBC is considering changing its “listen again” service to include Digital Rights Management so that…
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The Economist on Ghana and on vaccines
This week’s Economist has a stupid article about vaccinations for diseases in poor countries. The print…
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