Affairs / Urbanism
Monocolumn
Monday 15 February
Germany’s welfare black hole
Walking through Berlin can make you feel as though you are on the set of one of those post-apocalypse films from the 1980s, such as Mad Max or The Day After.
- 52 results for welfare
The Briefing, episode 108
The UN and Syria clash over child welfare, we’re also joined by TED talk favourite Simon Sinek, and David Phelan discusses the latest tech products.
Midori House, episode 189
Malik al-Abdeh of Syrian station Barada TV discusses the conflict, we investigate the welfare of Ethiopia’s prime minister, and talk with Palestine’s first Olympic athlete.
Business / Society
Monocolumn
Friday 7 May
‘Banker to the poor’ comes to the rescue
Muhammad Yunus styles himself as the “banker to the poor”.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Tuesday 1 November
Priests, bankers and protestors
The protestors at the Occupy London Stock Exchange demonstration have claimed another scalp.
Affairs / Society
Briefing Oceania
An Antipodean Martin Luther King and New Zealand on a go-slow.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Friday 6 January
President Zuma calls for his machine gun
South African President Jacob Zuma still sings a song, Umshini Wami (My Machine Gun) from his time as a commander of the armed wing of the ANC at every public meeting.
Affairs / Environment
06 - Helsinki
The fastest flying times from Europe to Asia’s hubs make Helsinki more than Nokia-town.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Monday 19 September
The Danish election’s swing to the left
Denmark has a new prime minister, the first woman ever to fill the post and the very model of a slick, modern, media-savvy European leader: she is the Social Democrat, Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
Affairs / Politics
Asia briefing
Japanese mobile phone "sommeliers", plus the ghost tower of Bangkok.
Business / Industry
Monocolumn
Sunday 25 July
Going against the grain
The ancient Maya may have considered chocolate “the food of the gods”, but corn is the grain that has perennially powered the Mexican masses.
Edits / Society
Monocolumn
Sunday 19 August
Is Sweden’s paternity leave breeding flagging fathers?
I’ve just returned from a week’s trip to Sweden, further convinced that there are few places more pleasant to while away a balmy summer evening than Stockholm.
Affairs / Economics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 17 August
The summer of discontent
It started with an ordinarily looking Facebook page, advocating a boycott of a common Israeli cottage cheese for its costly price (£1.50 for 250g).
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Sunday 2 May
What UK politics can learn from Hungary
As Gordon Brown blunders his way across Britain, party spin-doctors have called in Stephen Hopkins, director of the nail-biting television series 24, to take charge of election videos. But Labour should be looking to Hun…
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Thursday 29 November
Learning to love criticism
Being born in Finland is like winning the lottery. That is an old saying that every single Finn knows.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 1 August
Surreal arguments are Republicans’ health
Taking a leaf out of Franklin D Roosevelt’s speech book, Congressman Mike Kelly from Pennsylvania and Congresswoman for New York Ann Marie Buerkle decided that yesterday – 1 August 2012 – was a day which will live in infamy…
Business / Industry
Monocolumn
Wednesday 16 February
It’s back to the 80s with massive state sell-off
After spending much of his first term taking a cautious approach, New Zealand prime minister John Key has finally raised a very unpopular idea indeed.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Wednesday 30 January
Europe invites the critics
Closed attitudes to immigration in Europe mean that promoting its nations has taken a strange turn.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 16 June
Education hits the rocks
Emotions are running wild in the run up to a referendum in July in which Hamburg citizens will decide whether to abolish what are known in Germany as Hauptschule.
Affairs / Entrepreneurialism
Monocolumn
Sunday 17 January
Germans get adventurous
After years of longing for a job for life and worshipping the ideal of staying at home in comfort, Germans are showing signs of becoming globally minded entrepreneurs.