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Monday 22/October/2018 14:30 PM

The high cost of high finance

As the United Kingdom’s Brexit negotiations stumble on, other European countries are using the period of uncertainty about the future regulation of the...

Monday 22/October/2018 14:27 PM

The end of Scandinavian non-alignment

Having debarked from ports in western Sweden, military convoys from various NATO countries are crowding Swedish streets and prompting the police to issue...

Monday 22/October/2018 14:25 PM

Will Italy sink Europe?

Despite political turmoil and emerging risks at the global level, the eurozone has had two years of strong economic growth, at least by its own historically...

Sunday 21/October/2018 14:23 PM

The 'no-growth' prescription for misery

From their ivory towers, nearly 240 academics have declared that economic growth is bad for Europe and the planet. In two months, they and global supporters...

Sunday 21/October/2018 14:21 PM

What has Google ever done for us?

Even Google’s fiercest critics use its technologies to research their fiery tirades against it or, more mundanely, to find their way around a foreign...

Sunday 21/October/2018 14:19 PM

Is hothouse earth avoidable?

Nearly 50 years ago, the Club of Rome’s report “Limits to Growth” warned that if economic growth continued apace without regard for the environment,...

Sunday 21/October/2018 14:17 PM

The case against national AI strategies

Efforts to develop artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly being framed as a global race, or even a new Great Game. In addition to the race between...

Saturday 20/October/2018 14:29 PM

Just say no to agricultural gene drives

First, the agribusiness giants came to take our land and disrupt our food systems with synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, proprietary seeds, and genetically...