Month: April 2005

This is about nuclear energy, not about the US Senate… I have been requested a few times to write about France’s nuclear energy programme. It’s a huge subject, and I have already spent too many hourse...

In theory the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) should be among the richest countries on earth. Its vast territory virtually brims with cobalt, copper, cadmium, oil, industrial and gem diamonds, coltan, gold, silver, zinc,...

The mother of a friend, a few days after 911, when “incidents” were very frequent, was reluctant to go anywhere, in part due to her “Middle Eastern appearance.” She was finally persuaded to just go to the...

[From the diaries – susanbhu](cross-posted at the Paper Tiger) If you want to stir things up on a China-related blog, you can always count on these two topics to do the job: Taiwanese independence (or separatism, if you...

What do YOU think? From today’s Observer: A report to be published tomorrow by the Institute of Race Relations, a London-based charity, suggests Britain is breaching the Geneva conventions by sending asylum seekers back to...