Ben Houchen, Cons. Home
Free Ports, Free Trade Zones to give them their proper name, are fast becoming one of the hottest issues of the Conservative Leadership Contest. In fact, of all of the policy ideas being floated by candidates, they could be seen as the litmus test of their commitment to Brexit.
S. Green, PJM
Tanks on the Washington Mall? They aren't evidence of an impending military coup; they're a symbol of America's military and civilian awesomeness. A quick word on today's special guest star, the M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank, before we get to the really juicy stuff. It's a brief learning opportunity...
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Note that Iranian aggression. The rest of the piece, fairly typical of the tone of American media coverage of the ongoing Iran crisis, included sentences like this: The C.I.A. has longstanding secret plans for responding to Iranian provocations. I'm sure I've read such things hundreds of times without ever really stopping to think much about them, but this time I did. And what struck me was this: rare is the moment in such mainstream news reports when Americans are... Читать дальше...
Len McCluskey, New Statesman
Paul Mason argues his corner well, but really needs to stop being so dismissive of opposing views. In his recent New Statesman article he attacks all shades of left opinion which do not back his analysis of Brexit. He is simply wrong to cite Ford Bridgend, Honda Swindon and British Steel in Scunthorpe, none of these problems are caused by Brexit, any more than the many car factories and steel works shut over the last 40 years were closed because of the UK's EU membership. Читать дальше...
J. Guy & A. Crouin, CNN
A rooster called Maurice was Thursday put on trial in western France, in an unusual case that has come to symbolize the divide between urban and rural communities.
David Pierson, LA Times
How a clever Malaysian farmer has made a fortune off the durian, the pungent tropical fruit that attracts equal parts adoration and revulsion.
S. Bogner & P. Hertzberg, Spiegel
Only a small percentage of the world's refugees ever reach Europe. Most never even leave the continent they are originally from. Some of the world's poorest nations as hosts to millions of refugees, including Ethiopia.
Stephanie Slade, Reason
From socialism to nationalism, debunked ideologies are making a return.
Kyiv Post
It is not easy to share a table with world leaders, and even harder to look malevolent and authoritarian power in the eyes a stinging lesson learned by two editors of the Financial Times in Moscow last week. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is a notoriously hard man to interview. He is ideologically ambiguous, intellectually
Nizar Manek, FP
Ethiopia's prime minister oversaw the chaotic release of thousands of prisoners, including many ethnonationalist militants. His amnesty may now be coming back to haunt him.
Bret Stephens, New York Times
We need to reclaim the spirit of 1776, not the certitudes of 1789.
Chris Daw, Spectator
I was recently treated to a small taste of the real China. It was in the incongruous setting of a vast conference centre in east London, directly under the flight path of City airport. On assignment
Economist
With America gone, Europeans struggle to fend for themselves. An imagined scenario from 2024
Chris Horton, Atlantic
Hong Kong and Taiwan long had a relationship built around trade and tourism. But as China clamps down in Hong Kong, ties between the pair are strengthening.
Wolfgang Ischinger, Politico EU
Europe can't afford to wait for Serbia and Kosovo to come up with a solution.