Tag: Development
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Hillman in Hendon and in Tehran
Is the Israeli attack on Iran the first on a country that manufactures electric cars by one that doesn’t? — I met this gorgeous car and its proud owner in…
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Is Wolfowitz going native?
The World Bank’s 2006 World Development Report (download the report here and the overview here) provides at least some evidence that Bush crony and super-hawk Paul Wolfowitz hasn’t taken advantage…
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What’s wrong with Live 8?
Smug, patronising, reductive, counter-productive. Nauseating, clapped-out (McCartney? Sting? The Who?), bullying, sentimental, phoney, boring. Recycling twenty year-old images of suffering people. Providing no insight at all into African subjectivity –…