Feeling Europe’s pain
All is not well in the old world of organisational paternity, job security and economic rationality. But the silver lining is that we have millions of virtual ‘friends’ to feel our pain.
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Scandinavia: is the far right far off?
Home-grown terrorism in Norway, a resumption of border controls in Denmark and an increasingly immigration-weary Sweden. Is right-wing politics taking hold in the once-tolerant Nordic countries?
Read moreRejected by the right, Western Muslims are only left with the left
No Muslim in their right mind would support far-right Christian groups in the West, though they may well symathise with their Muslim equivalents elsewhere.
Read moreBaksheesh and social tipping points
Egypt’s ‘baksheesh’ culture helps poor people get by and maintains relative social peace, but it encourages subservience.
Read moreEgypt’s heartless economic growth
Economic growth in Egypt has mainly benefited the well-off, with many of the poor falling off the tightrope of the poverty line.
Read moreIs Europe not working?
The chair of a leading multinational claims that Europeans do not work hard enough and do not value work enough. I beg to differ.
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