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Dr. Jehad Al-Omari
6 min read
Three days which stay in the memory
As we say in Arabic, these days are pregnant with events which invoke many memories to those who follow history like I do. Three events in
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Stoker
6 min read
The World has Changed, Joe
by Stoker For seventy years the United States has dominated international affairs. Not by having an empire but by being both policeman...
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Richard Pooley
8 min read
A lousy image is bad for your health
For many years I used to run cross-cultural skills courses for businesspeople engaged in doing business across borders.
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
6 min read
Ethiopia: where ethnicity trumps nationalism. Abiy's dilemma
Thirty-six years ago this month (1977…yes, I can subtract, so be patient) I was driving south from Addis Ababa to my house in the Ethiopian
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Richard Carr
6 min read
The Antipodean Paradox. Have the Aussies and Kiwis become victims of their own success?
Without wishing to join the legions of armchair epidemiologists, I do have a perspective on how matters have been handled in the Antipodes
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
5 min read
Glasgow 2021 and the fallacy of Net Zero (or a beginner’s guide to climate change)
Every Sunday morning for many years now, I walk through the tea-fields next to my home in Kenya
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Dr. Jehad Al-Omari
5 min read
Food for thought – a taste of the Arab Kitchen
I must admit that my favourite subject after History is Food. It is an obsession.
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Stoker
6 min read
Getting High in New York … or Dubai?
Joe Biden has had a month in office now and his to-do list is very impressive. How much will get done is another matter.
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Richard Pooley
7 min read
How small talk can win you big business
Oldies like me may scoff at the notion that anyone needs to be taught how to chat but we were not brought up with a sleek oblong of metal
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Vincent Guy
11 min read
How I found out I was Jewish
What do I have in common with the Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself. - Franz Kafka
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