Some time ago I attended a dinner as sat next to one of the founders of UKIP. I asked him what he was going to do once he had got shot of the EU. “Simple, he said, “ we should be trading with the English speaking world.” I pointed out that the US was no …
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop. (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
New figures suggest that the number of women and girls who have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) may be up to 70m higher than estimated last year. A recent Unicef report said that up to 200m procedures have been carried out in 30 countries around the world. Somalia has the highest rate, with 98 per …
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“Global warming is the greatest scam in history.” Denialist headlines like this one litter the internet, confusing the public and frustrating climate scientists. Scientists are fighting back. There is Climate Feedback, an internet tool that lets climate scientists review journalists’ reports on the subject and give each story a credibility score. The system uses a …
Last summer in The New York Times, Victor Fleischer, a law professor at the University of San Diego, took several big-name schools to task for the ways that they handle their endowments. Fleischer cited Harvard, the University of Texas, Stanford and Princeton — but he reserved his harshest criticism for Yale University, which he says …
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