Opinion

Monday 29/February/2016 16:02 PM

From Mussolini's slogan to Trump's soundbite

Donald Trump is getting lots of flak for allegedly retweeting a Benito Mussolini quote -- after a Gawker journalist set an elaborate Twitter trap for him....

Monday 29/February/2016 15:35 PM

The G-20 misses its Sputnik moment

The global economy needed this weekend’s Group of 20 meeting in China to produce a “Sputnik moment.” Instead, and despite growing awareness of the...

Monday 29/February/2016 15:19 PM

Recognise Kosovo or pay the price

Eight years after Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia, five European Union states still refuse to recognise it. They need to relent. They are...

Sunday 28/February/2016 14:55 PM

Interest rates: Less than zero in Japan

In a bold attempt to reflate the Japanese economy, the Bank of Japan has now pushed interest rates on deposits into negative territory. Though this policy...

Sunday 28/February/2016 14:40 PM

Good news for campaigns: Go ahead and lie

Tired of campaign lies and the lying liars who tell them? You’ll be sorry to hear that an Ohio law that prohibited false statements about a candidate for...

Sunday 28/February/2016 14:19 PM

Agenda for humanity

The number of persons that are dependent on humanitarian aid has now become higher than ever since the founding of the United Nations. The number of warring...

Saturday 27/February/2016 15:31 PM

Democrats are the real conservatives of 2016

As the contest between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders moves into its next phase -- primaries in South Carolina and other Southern states -- the question...