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At the end of his article on the French presidential election in the last issue David Lee quoted the well-known opening couplet of a poem...

At the beginning of the year, I paid my rates on our three plots of land in Kenya. To my annoyance, they have doubled

China’s journey from poor and powerless to rich and regal has been swift and dramatic. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

I’ve spent a lot of my working life on the road, an inevitable consequence of a long career in international development...

“Travel broadens the mind” you must have been told many times. But does it? In the twenty first century, does it? It can certainly be fasci