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• 1 Jun 2009

  Pakistan: remembering Winston Churchill

  MALAKAND, PAKISTAN – In Pakistan they have have a great sense of the continuity of history. These days, local government officials are called district coordination officers or DCOs rather than political agents, but when I visited Malakand yesterday I noted that the sign on the gate still read “Political Agent’s Residence” as it must have…

• 10 Feb 2009

  Jon Snow

  Are bankers alone to blame for our plight?

  I am watching these four bankers before the treasury select committee in the Commons. And I am watching our elected representatives struggling to rise to what is expected of them. The MPs are manifestly under-briefed in comparison with their American counterparts, who have large teams working on a thing like this. Our representatives have the…