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Portugal’s hidden housing crisis

Portugal is supposedly the model for European success and recovery after the 2008 financial crisis. With its economy on the verge of collapse in the years immediately following the crisis, the country received substantial bailouts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Central Bank (ECB).   Kira Lily Nash […]

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Covid and other viruses: adapt or die!

Unpleasant as it might sound, and it is unpleasant, the most poorly adapted to survive in the face of coronavirus are those most likely to die prematurely, unless they are helped by others not to do so. For adaptation is collective, as well as individual.   Nigel Pocock   This […]

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Travelling without meat

Vegetarians learned long ago how to curate a standard restaurant menu by stripping out most or all of the main dishes and focusing instead on starters, salads and side dishes.   Sean Sheehan   Depending on your location, non-meat dishes now go well beyond a boring vegetable lasagne or a […]

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“Westernisers” and “slavophiles”

Russian responses to the West have typically fallen into two camps, and we see this playing out again today.   Steve Latham   On the one hand, were those who may be called “modernisers”, or “westernisers”; because they saw the model for future development in modernisation in copying the western […]