T he aim was to be the invisible man, says Igor Pedin, 61. It was to drift, as if a ghost, with his small trolley bag of supplies and dog Zhu-Zhu, a nine-year-old mongrel terrier, through the hellscap

Only a few decades ago — right up until the 1980s, in fact — Walgreens, that behemoth of the pharma industry, had food service as a main staple of its offerings. You might remember through the dim mis

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Aug 22nd 2021 ONCE AMERICA announced that it would not save its client state, things unravelled quickly. As the enemy seized province after province, government soldiers shed their uniforms and ran. O

For as long as most people can remember, the tech industry has had a new centre roughly every fifteen years. A model of computing sets the agenda, and the company or companies that win that model domi

Imagine that you’re working in a government subdepartment that tracks coronavirus infections and traces the patients’ contacts. You’ve just discovered that nearly 16,000 positive tests didn’t get into

Insights Technology Entrepreneurship and the Disruption of Ambition Author: Posted: 24 January, 2017 There has been a great deal of analysis of how technology will disrupt life in the coming decades.

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One day last summer, Jake Fiennes was lost in a cloud of butterflies. He was on a woodland path near Holkham Beach, on the north coast of Norfolk. Every decade or so, ten million painted-lady butterflies, which are orange, black, and white, migrate to Britain from tropical Africa. The hot summer…

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Most obviously, humility is in order. Those of us of a certain age can remember when many thought that the 1972 mining of Hanoi and Haiphong would lead to something worse than the Cuban missile crisis

Happy Valley Racecourse in Hong Kong. Photographer: Xyza Bacani for Bloomberg Businessweek . Horse racing is something like a religion in Hong Kong, whose citizens bet more than anyone else on Earth.

“Power isn't wealth or sophistication or complexity. Power is the ability to make people do things they don't want to do” - Roger Lovatt When Steve Wozniak created the original Apple I in 1975, IBM do

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Review by Orwell : The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek / The Mirror of the Past by K. Zilliacus Observer, 9 April 1944 Taken together, these two books give grounds for dismay. The first of them is an eloquent defence of laissez-faire capitalism, the other is an even more vehement denunciation of it.…

A recent biography of Clement Attlee presents a figure fully as admirable—and, in some ways, more so—as Winston Churchill. Photograph by Popperfoto / Getty For anyone with what used to be called “progressive tendencies,” thebest, if largely overlooked, book of last year was surely John…

I am only beginning to understand, 10 years after his death, how much my father wanted his relationship with me to be about cars. That is to say, our relationship was partly about cars, but not in the way he would have liked. And so when it comes to my own son, and the way that we talk about cars, I…

François Lenoir/Reuters Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at a summit of the EU, Brussels, June 2017 People, money, Ireland. These are the three big questions on which the immediate future of the Brexit project hinges. When European Union leaders…

‘We need … to sing in praise of a European Union which has achieved a peace, prosperity and freedom which our ancestors only dreamed of.’Photograph: Getty Images/Universal Images Group W here there is no vision, the people perish, says the Book of Proverbs. As the slow-motion car crash of Brexit…

Mr. Trump’s plan to build a thousand mile wall along the border between the United States and Mexico is attracting a lot of attention. A good friend of mine, noted for her knowledge of strategy and history, told me not to get too worked up about this harmless public works project. After all, this…

Between the last weekof March & the last of April, the journey for The Frayed Atlantic Edge took me from N Donegal down to CountyCork. These are coastlines with some of the richest histories in the N Atlantic world, Ireland long being pivotal to oceanic geographies reaching from Spain & N Africa to…

Walkers by Lochan a’ Chnapaich in Gleann na Sguaib, Inverlael Forest, east of Ullapool, Highland Region, Scotland.Photograph: Vincent Lowe/Stock Photo A t the weir at Glenbeg, we abandon the path and head west, using the river as a guide. The bog is dirt-black and soupy, threatening to mire us at…

WHEN he gave interviews to foreign journalists, which he did rarely, Osama bin Laden had a way of looking down at his hands. This, and his soft, slightly raspy voice, and his gentle eyes—as well as the fact that he allowed no instantaneous translation—helped conceal what he was saying: that it was…

Manoocher Deghati-AFP-Getty Get our daily newsletter Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks. AS HE flew into Kuwait in March 1991, Red Adair could see nothing. The sky was filled with black smoke to a height of 15,000 feet, and it was impossible to tell what was north,…