“The “intensity of mockery” heaped on LinkedIn following the announcement of its $26bn sale to Microsoft makes me actually want to pity the world’s largest professional network. “LinkedIn is Facebook for ugly people”, tweeted one wag in a typically jaundiced pronouncement. But I have finally learnt “if not to love, then at least to appreciate”, …
My wife and I were sitting in a Lisbon square, drawing. A Frenchman leaned over to see what I was doing and we had a brief conversation. “Are you British”, he asked. “Yes”. “May I see your visa, please? ” Don’t laugh. It could happen.
Going, going, gone. Five of the Solomon Islands have been swallowed whole by rising sea levels, offering a glimpse into the future of other low-lying nations. Sea levels in the Solomon Islands have been climbing by 7 millimetres per year over the last two decades, due to a double whammy of global warming and stronger …
NPR News in the United States begins its election day article on Brexit thus: “Great Britain once ruled the largest empire in history, with colonies and dominions that spanned the globe and political and econonomic influence that wildly exceeded its modest size. Generations of school kids were raised on the mantra, ” The Empire on …
To the Guardian John Harris identifies a fault line in British politics that also cuts through the EU debate: the centralisation of power. The UK is the most centralised country in Europe, behind even its smaller neighbours such as Belgium, Austria and Spain. Despite recent promises of regional devolution, citizens feel increasingly shut out of …
