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In "Opinion / Editorial"
December 21, 2018
Trump is plain wrong: Daesh is not yet beaten
To outsiders, the US legal system can sometimes be every bit as baffling as its gun laws. Both, in their different ways, are underpinned by a sense of entitlement. The prevailing mood among American litigants, egged on by fee-seeking lawyers, is that when something goes wrong, someone, preferably a big corporation with deep pockets, has to be held responsible.Thus, the family of a child killed in a car crash have been seeking to sue computer-giant Apple. This was because the driver of the vehicle that smashed into the back of the family car was making a video call using Apple’s proprietary FaceTime technology. Apple was alleged to be responsible because it had developed, but not included in its program, a patch that would have disabled FaceTime when the phone was in motion. One good...
December 19, 2018
Taking responsibility
December 19, 2018
What China’s Xi
did not say
December 18, 2018
Curious Davos
December 17, 2018
Doubly illegal
December 16, 2018
Racism on and off the field
December 14, 2018
Twitter boss discovers his inner idiocy
December 13, 2018
A forlorn bit of foreign policy
Most dramatically expanding economies have done so on the back of borrowing because, as national incomes increase, there are more and more institutions ready to lend and to invest in this growth. China and India have been no exception to this.However, whereas in China the Communist government has complete control of the economy, including financial sector regulation, since India decided to go for growth and international expansion, successive governments in New Delhi have presented the Reserve Bank of India, the country’s Central Bank, as being independent, something which could never be claimed from its opposite number in Beijing, the People’s Bank of China.But an independent central bank poses risks for any government wanting to borrow and spend without regard to the effect on the...
December 12, 2018
Modi shoots the messenger
December 11, 2018
Trump’s new Chinese gauntlet
