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“With great power comes great responsibility.” — Spider-Man“No God. The only man in the sky is me.” — Homelander I often remark on how much the modern world resembles the cyberpunk sci-fi novels I read when I was a kid. But occasionally it takes a page from a different genre: superhero comics....
Whichever way things are going, they’ll go a long way. Inflation was rediscovered in September. Up to that date the quoted REIT sector had risen 25%, rebounding as the economy...
Radical overhaul of construction industry needed if UK to have any chance, according to new research. As I entered the construction site in England a decade ago, I was...
In 2021, 20 countries pledged to no longer fund the development of fossil fuel power plants in other countries. This commitment threatens to keep millions of Africans from moving...
Central banks will do far more harm trying to tackle it. It remains to be seen whether the Omicron variant will shift Sars-CoV-2 towards becoming manageably endemic. But as and...
Power posturing or trouble on the home front for Putin? There is a pressing need to understand what’s behind Moscow’s growing threat to use military force against Ukraine. The...
When I was on honeymoon in Venice, I spotted a pair of Chinese dragons, one chewing a toenail and the other picking its nose. Smart shop, Grand Canal – my wife, Jane, and I set...
In a year-end review of polling and politics, one of America’s leading national pollsters, Scott Rasmussen, says most Americans have higher priorities than politics. And he says...
David Goldman offers an interesting take on the competition between the United States and China for global influence in his latest book, You Will Be Assimilated: China’s...
Why they beat the rest of the high street as a retail experience. A bone china teapot, a pair of leather brogues, a poetry book, a velvet coat, an embroidered tablecloth and...