Sitemap - 2021 - This Week, Those Books
This Christmas we managed to frighten ourselves into deep gloom
A grim Christmas for the Soviet Union, 30 years ago
The case for China's continued rise
Along with other things, America has a Santa crisis
The new Internationale and the new kids on the left bloc
How Erdogan's faux-religious economic scruples matter to Nutella-lovers
Chile’s election aftermath ironically speaks volumes about America
The Orient Express doesn't have much to do with the orient anymore
The Refugee Convention is dead: let's bury it and start again
2022 economic forecasts? A parlor game
The too meta world of the Metaverse
Dave Eggers' Dickensian take on the perils of Big Tech getting bigger
What chance that cigarettes go up in smoke?
A moral vacuum…on either side of the English Channel?
30 years…and counting of 'They're trying to cancel Christmas'
Starbucks froths up the debate over work and pay inequality
The New Zealand nudge that Big Tobacco must view with dread
Counting down on exactly two years of Covid 19
Biden should have called Trump out as Covid's Typhoid Mary
Diagnosing some of Germany's angst
Where in the modern world is waste being repurposed to build?
Linguistic code is a necessary oil
America's Talibanisation on abortion may go beyond the Taliban
Journalists are comically attached to linear narratives
Nah, Donald Trump probably won't be back in the White House. Here's why
The woman who led Barbados in its brave leap forward
How a US kidnapping gave hope in the global fight against domestic violence
A dam can be a good cover model and infrastructure, a good story
A manifesto for 'third-way', eyes-wide-shut liberalism
Iman's tribute to David Bowie is a fragrant ode to their life together
It's the 400th anniversary of Thanksgiving, which was nothing like this anyway
Britain is seeking an 'Australian solution' to the migrant problem
The Rittenhouse trial was basically about gun rights and self-defence
Tariq Ali's views on 'racism' in English cricket are worth reading
The elephant in the courtroom isn't Happy
A French president who's made for TV?
85 minutes as president. Kamala Harris' place in history
The dictator returns - through his spawn
'French beserk': The Eric Zemmour effect
The (re)making of China…in Mr Xi's image
America's Democrats can't risk another 'basket of deplorables' moment
Belarus is weaponizing human beings. For years, Europe has done the same, in reverse
What's nude for your skin colour?
Britain is not a captured state…yet
How to shop without costing the Earth
The age of protest: 'a great wind is blowing'
China tightens its belt - literally
Trump-lite is flavour of the month
A baby is sold in Herat. A man sold his family in Thomas Hardy's fictional Wessex
How to make COP26 a success? Talk about plastics
What does the Virginia election matter when the American establishment itself is rotten?
Abdulrazak Gurnah: the truth-teller’s tale
Halloween has become spookily big in Britain
Mon dieu. The French have given up on the skinny jean
Meta problems: Beyond Facebook
Asma Khan epitomises the rise and rise of Britain's public chef
'The world's most effective democratically elected leader today'?
Did Gurnah win the literature Nobel for his prose or politics?
How to solve the sunchokes or Jerusalem 'fartichokes' issue
Governments should mark World Food Day every day
The mystery of the mutinous workers
Abdulrazak Gurnah makes little concession to literary fads
What Hungary does today, America does tomorrow?
Problems with supply chains aren't exactly enthusing the anti-globalisation brigade
Workers of the world are uniting - we're seeing it happen
Virginia's Youngkin and the Republicans who are 'strangers in their own party'
Did democracy in Tunisia fail or did it never succeed?
Columbus Day is hit by a great rethink and the 'everything shortage'
The highs and lows of hotel art
#FairPlay: About 'taking the knee' before it became a powerful symbol
'Wrongthink' and other issues at liberal institutions
A colour revolution…or not, in Virginia
Multi-coloured 'porcelain' berries and cycle lane sharing
The 'Indiana banana' and its close Indian relative
Vignettes from the DMV area - DC, Maryland, Virginia
The 'cloud car' of Adams Morgan, Washington, D.C.
'Slow streets' need to be the way we live, a lot faster
Afghanistan's embassy in Washington, D.C. is like a metaphor for the country
Mary MacBride finishes off a perfect fall evening in Washington, D.C.
Sabina Nessa and the 'missing white woman syndrome'
Upholding democracy…one class at a time
The Kama Sutra and the Bajrang Dal
As the West cuts aid lifelines, Afghanistan's real crisis looms
A Russian exercise in re-selection
Two accounts from rural Afghanistan paint a picture of sudden, unaccustomed peace
Despite all the international attention, Afghan refugees are not welcome
Brexit and 'British' success at the US Open
Inside the Afghan resettlement process in London
Heard about the £5,000 handbags
The Republican Party has serious life and death issues
Afghanistan: 'There is a lot of noise'
3 different takes on democracy: America, Afghanistan, Venezuela
Haiti chérie: not unlucky but unprepared
The Afghan situation comes home to Greenwich
Are the Taliban really in charge?
A slice of 17th century life in the National Gallery
Donald Rumsfeld's epitaph was written long ago
What Hissene Habre's death in prison says
A better playbook for America's Afghan engagment?
'The trendy Taliban'? You've got to be kidding
Where ARE the anti-war voices?
Listen up, to these hard truths on Afghanistan
What's at stake for Afghan women?
Keeping up appearances…in Afghanistan
Three takeaways from the Taliban's return to Kabul
There is just enough to yoke Afghanistan and Haiti together
Zambia once heralded the 'African Spring'
The bizarre nature of Afghan 'peace'
Biden Vs Bernie…again, in a different vein
Online gaming is both 'opium' and Mahjong
Orban's Hungary is now guru to the American right
Are you wondering what on earth is going on in Afghanistan?
Belarus is an example of the impotence of the 'West'
Does China have the stomach to become a superpower?
Britain unlocks itself to the footloose
A warm, dry July evening in the heart of London: here's what it looks like
Shakespeare in the Garden: as you like it
What's wrong with Paul Bowles? What's wrong with us?
Why the livestock farmer is the world's next guru
Half-a-year in, what about Joe-plomacy?
Space: the final frontier for the planet's wealthiest?
The Golden Arches theory of conflict prevention is so yesterday
What Haiti could learn from the success story of Bangladesh
There's a whole bookshelf of new books on cities
The pandemic was a force of nature. Britain's pingdemic is a farce of human nature
Inside the most cursed country in the world: Haiti
Haiti doesn't need the world to be hands-off
Digital money won't be the cash in your pocket
James Carville on 'wokeness' and the Democrats' 'messaging problem'
'When you win, you're English; when you lose, you're Black'
Whether or not football's coming home, there's a limit to sport's transformative power
'Maybe, just maybe_ Good luck England!' Football and the art of understatement
The assassination of Haiti's president may worsen its response to COVID-19
The ABC of the assassination of Haiti's president
How did Bangladesh become the 'miracle on the Meghna'?
How Canada became 'warmer than Dubai'
That's rich. 56.1 million millionaires…and counting
Never give the European far right an inch; half-an-inch is all it can manage
From 1979, this man kept tabs on the EU's worsening verbal diarrhoea
Do Norway's big bucks give it a right of sorts on Gabon's forests?
America is no South Africa, that's for sure
Democracies Anonymous, a new mutual aid fellowship?
Matt Hancock, Gina Coladangelo and the Oliver Bonas beanie from the station shop
How much is enough to feel wealthy?
Look at Miami and see our collective future?
Twitter and Facebook can't be an ad hoc international court
The most generous person in the world
What's the point of the Nobel Peace Prize now?
How European bonds are helping the pandemic recovery
British politics' soap opera script
4 reasons to believe America may be in better political shape than we think
Can the 'Cornwall consensus' last?
From Jackson Browne to chants of 'fake news'
Mr Biden is right that America is back. For how long is the question
A 'Boris bike' and a Wikiphoto
The Israeli Arab dentist drilling down to the basics of what it means to be human
Boris and that 'special relationship'
Boris Johnson and that honeymoon
Yasser Arafat is arrested in India for pro-Palestinian FB post
May was glorious — for impunity
Biden and the myth of the political Yoda
Truckers, bankers and others are Brexit-ing
Making an honest man of Boris Johnson
In three countries, the war over tax
'North Korea in the heart of Europe'?
Swexit isn't a word but it should be
One day we'll all be 'prosumers'
Eco-modernism vs traditional environmentalism
How one woman changed the world
The decline and fall of the Roman empire was a spur…to progress
Trump's Accords were anything but
I wouldn't want to be a white male writer right now
Brexit's rearview window is fogged up by Newspeak
'Women should try to take up more space'
Brexit has been a throwback to an earlier age
America's climate story is one of dizzying change
The Brothers of Italy are led by a sister, but their politics is still the same
The pandemic and the clothes on our backs
Look who's leading the digital currency line-up
The gravest miscarriage of justice in British history
For three days, south London became Berlin
How to become a less globalised business
India's Covid crisis and America's vaccine gold mine
The four foreign policy 'tribes' of Britain
Much ado about the Bard’s birth-day
You can't pandemic-proof a pilgrimage
Punctuation marks in George Floyd Square
E-commerce is the new mail order
What links the late Idriss Deby's Chad to Egypt and India
Bystander trauma: A tale of two countries
Northern Ireland new troubles are criminal, not political
Imagining London a hundred years on
The election that inspired hope
Lobbying and cronyism in Britain
American workers are like moths to Amazon's flame
Biden builds a new idea of infrastructure
Reflections after a year as a volunteer in pandemic-hit Britain…
'A rude old man from a bygone age?'
AI, the tank and the 'blitzkrieg' concept
Mitch McConnell and corporate America’s First Amendment rights
Ankara chairs and the business of 'protocol machismo'
The international order itself is racially structured
America's bad news bias is a feature not a bug
Would diversity and the British royal family mean more Plantagenets?
Joe Biden’s plan to build…hope
The journalist who wasn’t and other stories
An Anglo-American Indian view of the world
The journalist who wasn’t and other stories
Joe Biden’s plan to build…hope
Legislative thuggery in Georgia?
This ‘Suez crisis’ could be an opportunity
How can the media cover the future when it’s not happened yet?
Is Europe course-correcting after taking a hard-right turn?
A glorious week for Britain? Depends on who you ask
It’s time for the world to discuss the very concept of asylum and refuge all over again