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View from London: Is Germany’s business model broken?

11:07 11.11.2024

View from London: Is Germany’s business model broken?

In a 30-plus-year career in corporate restructuring, consultant Andreas Rüter has seen it all: the dotcom bust, September 11, the global financial meltdown, the euro crisis, Covid-19. But what’s happening right now in corporate Germany is “unprecedented” and “of a completely different order of magnitude”, says Rüter, the country head …

Francis Fukuyama: What Trump means for American foreign policy?

11:06 11.11.2024

Francis Fukuyama: What Trump means for American foreign policy?

The blowout victory of Donald Trump and the Republican party on Tuesday night will lead to major changes in important policy areas, from immigration to Ukraine. But the significance of the election extends way beyond these specific issues, and represents a decisive rejection by American voters of liberalism and the …

‘Los Angeles Times’: Room at the top for Donald Trump

11:04 11.11.2024

‘Los Angeles Times’: Room at the top for Donald Trump

The real estate mogul and onetime reality TV star captured a second term as president of the United States early Wednesday morning — nearly a decade after his now iconic entrance on the nation’s political stage. His candidacy again surmounted innumerable obstacles and defied much of a political establishment that …

British life-style: How university education became infantilised

11:03 11.11.2024

British life-style: How university education became infantilised

Last month, after 21 years studying and teaching Classics at the University of Cambridge, I resigned. I loved my job. And it’s precisely because I loved the job I was paid to do, and because I believe so firmly in preserving the excellence of higher education, in Britain and beyond, …

Ukrainians fear Trump return could threaten their future

9:48 10.11.2024

Ukrainians fear Trump return could threaten their future

Many Ukrainians fear Trump’s return to the White House, with concerns he’d cut support and pressure NATO allies. Could a Trump presidency leave Eastern Europe vulnerable? ‘Financial Times’ reported that many in the Ukrainian army are afraid that Donald Trump’s presidency is fraught with the loss of Donbass for Kyiv. …

View from London: “I have never met a responsible soldier on either side of the Atlantic who supposed that Ukraine could achieve an absolute win”

9:47 10.11.2024

View from London: “I have never met a responsible soldier on either side of the Atlantic who supposed that Ukraine could achieve an absolute win”

Most European governments, including our own, hate and fear Donald Trump. Yet though nobody would say so, even behind the arras, they see one big reason to welcome him into the White House. He will get them off the hook in Ukraine and take most of the blame for its …

View from Israel: “In scene unimaginable 4 years ago, Michigan Arabs bask in Trump win they helped clinch”

9:46 10.11.2024

View from Israel: “In scene unimaginable 4 years ago, Michigan Arabs bask in Trump win they helped clinch”

Optimism and hookahs were bubbling in concert on Tuesday, the 5th November, night at the Arab Americans for Trump election watch party in Dearborn, Michigan, as the major TV networks called one state after another for the former and soon-to-be future US president, writes ‘The Tines of Israel’. It was …

XXI Century: Scurvy on the rise in the United States…

9:45 10.11.2024

XXI Century: Scurvy on the rise in the United States…

In a recent review published in the journal JAAOS: Global Research and Reviews, researchers compile available information on the symptoms, diagnosis, radiological evidence, and treatment of Scurvy, a disease caused by the severe deficiency of vitamin C (ascorbic acid), reports News Medical. They further conducted a retrospective investigation of pediatric …

British life-style: The assertion that commenting on a ‘man's baldness’ in the workplace is the equivalent to remarking on ‘the size of a woman's breasts’. There are not other problems?

8:56 09.11.2024

British life-style: The assertion that commenting on a ‘man's baldness’ in the workplace is the equivalent to remarking on ‘the size of a woman's breasts’. There are not other problems?

Calling a man 'bald' is considered sexual harassment, the High Court has ruled. Justice Ellenbogen agreed with the assertion that commenting on a man's baldness in the workplace is the equivalent to remarking on the size of a woman's breasts, ‘The Daily Mail’ reports. In a recently released full judgement, …

Billions are being thrown into the garbage: Europe's military aid to Ukraine is useless

8:55 09.11.2024

Billions are being thrown into the garbage: Europe's military aid to Ukraine is useless

In the month before the first votes had been cast in this week’s U.S. election, policy makers on both sides of the Atlantic had been solidifying their fortifications against the risk of a Trump victory. In its October report, the International Monetary Fund — which the developing world often sees …

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