I would like to share with you part of the writer, Alexander McCall Smith’s, article in the June 2015 edition of “Prospect” magazine, under the title “If I Ruled the World”: Education is a good thing. You might think that this hardly needs to be said, but there are plenty of people who view education …
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The shock defeat of Eric Cantor, House Majority leade, illustrates the mess American politics is in. While Epicurus might have wished a plague on all parties, the fact is that the US needs a government, and it is clear that the crazies want no government at all. This is bad for everyone and augments the …
Only 5% of British office workers take a full hour for their lunch break. 68% eat their lunch at their desks. 32% have the same lunch every day. (Philadelphia/The Times) They also increasingly work long hours, enjoy reduced benefits, and have to wrestle with money- purchase (instead of the old final salary) pensions. As a …
The owner of a US gun store who had planned to sell the nation’s first “smart gun” – a weapon that can only be fired by its legal owner – changed his mind after receiving death threats from gun enthusiasts. Andy Raymond, the co-owner of Engage Armament, a Maryland shop known for its custom assault …
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Marine Le Pen – the leader of the French National Front (FN), and winner of the French EU election – has declared that schools in the 11 towns won by her party in the recent local elections will no longer be offering alternatives to pork to Jewish and Muslim children. Such “pandering”, she said, was …
