Category: Columns

  1. Defying tyranny

    The Dutch will go orange-crazy this coming Monday. Canals in Amsterdam will overflow with boats crammed with orange-clad merrymakers. Music will fill streets festooned with orange…

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  2. New Book Examines Claims of State-Directed Organ Harvesting In China

    (REVIEW) Jan Jekielek’s “Killed to Order: China’s Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America’s Biggest Adversary” is difficult to read. Not because it is…

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  3. Battling for Freedom

    Freedom – of speech or of worship, from want or from fear – was both celebrated and contested on various fronts this week, reminding us that the…

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  4. The Constantine Trap

    Ever since Constantine in the fourth century, nations and empires have been tempted to define themselves as ‘Christian’.  But can a nation or an empire be…

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  5. Vaclav Smil book review by Sanjoy Sanyal

    The Recipe for Tomorrow We can feed a growing and warming planet without magic bullets or radical upheaval. How to Feed the World: A Factful Guide….

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  6. Two milestones

    This month marks twenty-five years since the first Weekly Word was sent out in February 2001.  When this column began, Europe stood at the dawn of a new…

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  7. Never again!

    The slogan ‘Never again’ evolved after World War Two rooted in the vow to prevent the recurrence of the Holocaust’s horrors.  It has been broadened over time…

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  8. The Metric Mirage – When Hitting the Numbers Is A Warning Sign

    Numbers are attractive. They look precise. They fit neatly on dashboards. They let us say, “We are on track” or “We are off track” with confidence….

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  9. Civilisational decline?

    “Europe is being transformed beyond recognition, hollowed out culturally and overrun by hordes of Muslim migrants in an irreversible process of civilisational decline”. So prominent voices…

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  10. Innovation Theatre – When Your Innovation Lab Is Just A Stage

    Innovation is one of the most overused words in corporate life. Every company claims to be innovative. Many have labs, incubators, hackathons and glossy slide decks….

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