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As the victims of Pakistan’s worst floods in history await help, Jonathan Miller writes about the story of malnourished baby Fazal.
Diane Abbott tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy she was right on many policies during the New Labour years, adding “I’m the genuine move-on candidate”.
Channel 4 News spends a week in Brazil and finds an emerging economic power house approaching environmental crossroads.
Jon Snow
When history comes to review the Brown government, it has every chance of proving an unhappy event. Gordon Brown’s takeover from Tony Blair settled uneasily into a sad and dispossessed period of ‘readjustment’ to the global financial catastrophe. But one of history’s other asides in reviewing the Brown government may yet come to rest on…
Jon Snow
So the government is setting up 10 cycle hubs across Britain – 10 railway stations where there will be state of the art cycle racks and a cycle shop within reach. I’m tempted to say they should have a ground anchorage for flying pigs. But let’s give them the benefit of the doubt.
Before Barack Obama swept into town, I spent an evening in an Istanbul hospital, visiting the bedside of an old friend. My friend is a true Levantine, perhaps one of the last; his forebears built railways for the Ottoman Sultans in the 19th Century, coming to what was then Constantinople from what was then the…
Jon Snow
Why is Africa poor? Here’s one reason – to ship copper from Zambia to a port in South Africa (the nearest) takes three weeks and costs $6,000 per week. The same journey in Europe takes 48 hours and costs a fraction of that. Bureaucratic border crossing, rotten and rotting railways, disintegrating roads… They all speak…