Feudalism

Eight years after the Arab Spring started, the triggers for Arab rage have not changed: Corruption, sectarianism, human rights abuses and official state contempt for their citizenry. The ruling clases of the regimes and governments that survived the Arab Spri…

The EU has frequently been caricatured as a faceless bureaucracy, where rules and procedures take precedence over powerful personalities. Yet this depersonalisation of power has recently been challenged by the emergence of some visible, decisive figures. Jona…

By Tamara MacLeod. I have three bedrooms and they all occupy the same space. Its like inter-dimensional travel; its amazing what a little domesticity can do. The first is the one I dont bother to dress up. My blankets stay creased, at least three books Im w…

A good con artist knows never to shear his marks too close. Take them for too much, and they'll catch on to the con. But a truly sharp operator can keep the same victims happy and clueless enough that they keep coming back to get conned again and again.Bernie…

INTERNAL security is an essential element of national security. The Quaid said, a government is responsible for maintaining order and protecting life and property, and religious belief. Provincialism, sectarianism and ethnic divisions have led to different ph…

In our selfie-defined culture, its usually considered a good thing to get attention, the more the better. But it may not be the case for Jews, or for Israel, to be  caught in the firestorm that is burning through American politics in ways not seen since the S…

LETTER | The below are the peculiarities delivered by a number of academics in Malaysia who have been continually invited to deliver them within and outside of the university ever since prior to the general election of May 2018: 1. The sovereignty of the Mal…

(Notification) WBPSC: CIVIL SERVICE (EXECUTIVE) ETC. EXAMINATION, 2020 (ADVT. NO. 22/2019) VACANCIES :  The number of vacancies in different services and posts to be filled up on the results of the examination will be announced in due time. Posts of some gr…

Workers pack coffee sachets at the Dormans coffee factory in Nairobi, Kenya. EPA/Daniel Irungu Narratives are essential. Humans are, after all, “helpless story junkies ”. Business and economic success depend much more than is commonly acknowledged on getting …

Under communism, farmers laboured in the fields that stretch for miles around this town west of Budapest, reaping wheat and corn for a government that had stolen their land. Today, their children toil for new overlords, a group of oligarchs and political pat…