Opinion

Sunday 13/March/2016 15:29 PM

Stop bashing Wall Street. Times have changed

There's a perverse competition among some US presidential candidates: Who can most loudly blame Wall Street for the problems of Main Street. They've...

Saturday 12/March/2016 20:10 PM

Need to bridge vacancy-skills gap in Oman

Despite the economic slowdown Oman is currently experiencing, the country still has the ability to create thousands of jobs per year but employers are faced...

Saturday 12/March/2016 15:42 PM

France’s citizenship test

Since last November’s brutal terrorist attacks in Paris, a furious debate has been raging in France over whether to revoke the citizenship of those...

Saturday 12/March/2016 15:26 PM

The end of globalisation?

China has just announced that last year, for the first time since it began opening up its economy to the world at the end of the 1970s, exports declined on...

Saturday 12/March/2016 15:03 PM

Ted Cruz keeps trying to solve Trump

No Republican presidential candidate in advance of 2015 read the primary electorate as shrewdly as Senator Ted Cruz, or displayed the capacity and...

Friday 11/March/2016 15:43 PM

Rethinking Urdu’s hegemony in Pakistan

The status of Urdu became a marker for Muslim identity in the pre-partition Indian subcontinent, and helped legitimise the Two-Nation Theory, based on which...