Of all the forms the next crisis could have taken- global war in the Middle East or the Baltic, far right takeover, unsustainable debt, climate

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Of all the forms the next crisis could have taken- global war in the Middle East or the Baltic, far right takeover, unsustainable debt, climate
Last December, Yeasayer called it a day. Brooklyn’s favourite psych-freaks were one of those bands I discovered in my first flush of uni freshers excitement,
It seems facile to say that geography is a major determinant of history. Of course it is. Indian trade patterns were pinned to the monsoon
Japanese has a word: shimaguni. It means ‘island nation‘. Unremarkable, you might think. Yet bottled in four syllables is a distillation of a supposed national
‘The NHS is good, but people expect too much for free. They should pay for their care.’ An animated Filipino nurse with two financier sons
When I lived in Japan, I didn’t watch many films. My Japanese never developed to the extent that I could really understand films without subtitles,