Current Affairs – Sublime

Making Lemonade

John Grant — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:32:05 +0000

It is starting to sink in. The housing market, or retail spending, or affordable commodities … these may never return. A cushy retirement may never come. The Western economies may never recover.

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In Praise of Ageing

Laura Santamaria — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

For me it was discovering that I was the oldest player at a hockey tournament. It sounds trivial, I know, but it sure didn't feel that way.

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The Smell of Brexit

John Wood — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 20:17:11 +0000

As leader of a country recently targeted by Russian cybercriminals, President Macron probably knows the extent to which dark money influenced the referendum result. Judging by the full sequence of events, whoever was behind the plot had extensive knowledge of the logic behind British pantomime. In a deranged plan to bring down the western alliance,...

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Who’s Next?

Laura Santamaria — Mon, 02 May 2016 12:00:51 +0000

As I look out on the world scene, I marvel that anyone has any hope at all of a happy and secure future! Humanity is in a bad way – global terrorism, petty crime and violence, poverty and exploitation, global recession, drugs and alcohol addiction, AIDS epidemics and Zika virus outbreak, the proliferation of armaments...

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I Spend, Therefore I Am

Laura Santamaria — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 12:58:08 +0000

I Spend Therefore I Am is a truly revelatory analysis of the way that a certain kind of economic thinking – that which puts self-interest at its centre – has invaded most aspects of our daily lives, from the way we make personal decisions to how we view reality and what we consider of value...

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A Gift for Life

laurasan — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 10:13:44 +0000

I recently travelled to South Sudan to document the work of some charities and NGOs in Central Equatoria state. As the diminutive single-prop plane touched down onto a rough laterite runway, my mind entered sensory overload as the landscape of a real place rose up to meet the troubled histories, distressing statistics and projected imaginations...

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The Democracy Project

Laura Santamaria — Tue, 07 May 2013 05:44:41 +0000

Image: Darwin Yamamoto By Christmas it was all over, the camps cleared and local laws changed to ban camping in public places. Phrases like ‘the 99%’ have entered the public imagination, but was anything actually achieved? What did it all mean, both then and now? ‘Enough time has passed‘ thinks David Graeber, ‘that we can...

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From Ashes to Hope

Allison Zurfluh — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Michel Juvet. Image: Olivier Vogelsang While a trip into East Africa’s Great Lakes Region as a delegate of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) may seem like business as usual, for senior economist Michel Juvet of Bordier & Cie it was a blow to the heart. As a part of the SDC commission, Juvet...

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Shale gas: Saviour or dangerous diversion?

Viki Johnson — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000

It’s strange to think that 30 years ago, geologists failed to rouse even a flicker of interest from the then ‘Department of Energy’ on their discovery of extensive shale gas resources in the UK. A decade later, in 1995, the British Geological Survey also noted the potential of UK shale gas production. But again, bureaucrats and...

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Revolution 2.0

Laura Santamaria — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:34:32 +0000

Remember the North African revolutions? Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, all within the space of a few months, threw off decades of dictatorship. Every one of the protest movements would, in a normal year, have warranted intense analysis, documentaries and books. So widespread and momentous were the events in North Africa that the minor details are...

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