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More on China in Africa
I wrote earlier this week about China’s growing role in Africa. Here are six further insights…
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TOP SECRET: How our legislators are chosen
This caught my eye in the Number 10 morning press briefing from 4 May 2006 Asked…
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UK Bloggers First Scalp?
According to this BBC report, the Government is to back down over the Legislative and Regulatory…
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Dangerous Foreigners Act 2006
Please tell me that the following are not controversial: I think it is downright racist to…
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A new scramble for Africa?
Abraham McLaughlin in the Christian Science Monitor has been writing for some time about the growing…
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A modest proposal to reform the World Bank
I am not one of those who believe the World Bank should be shut down. Indeed,…
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London’s “fashionable South Bank”
I have never thought of my gaff in the Elephant and Castle as being in a…
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John Kenneth Galbraith dies aged 97
John Kenneth Galbraith, the Canadian-born economist and JFK’s Ambassador to India, has died. Galbraith was probably…
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New parliamentary report on the trade negotiations
The House of Commons International Development Committee has just published a very sensible and well-informed report…
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