French elections Menage a trios The National Front's strength makes French politics a three-way affair SOMETIMES small elections are markers of major political change. France's latest vote, a two-round ballot on March 22nd and 29th to elect deputies...
Religion and free speech The right to be rude An offensive preacher acquires some unlikely allies MICHAEL OVERD is an evangelical Christian with strong views on the sinfulness of homosexuality and the wrongness of Islam (except, presumably, on the is...
Organ transplants Spare the bullet Officials try to curb the use of organs from executed prisoners TRANSPLANT operations in China have long relied on organs taken from executed prisoners, a practice that has led to such abuses as the timing of execut...
Britain's economy Spurious George The chancellor is poised to put forward a long-term plan for Britainabout the wrong thing THE British government's great boast is its resolve. Fainter hearts might have trembled before the political law that you cann...
Latinos in the United States How to fire up America The rise of Latinos is a huge opportunity. The United States must not squander it A SATIRICAL film in 2004, called A Day Without a Mexican, imagined Californians running scared after their cooks, na...
The genetic history of Britain Who do you think you are? An analysis of Britons' genes confirms some myths and explodes others THE waves of invasion and immigration that have, from time to time, swept over the British Isleshave led some to refer to B...
North Sea oil and the budget Priming the pumps For the oil and gas industry, tax reductions were overdue Sunset industry? AMONG the tax cuts announced in his budget on March 18th, the chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, laid out big reductio...
Lexington Paying fealty to farmers When Ted Cruz is the only person talking sense, something is wrong A FEW years ago, while reporting on the madness that is European farm subsidies, this columnist came up with a Richard Scarry rule of politics. Most...
Tax incentives Sparks fly Georgia's breaks for electric vehicles may be too good to last OLIVIA PEDERSEN thought the Nissan Leaf parked outside her favourite lunch spot near Emory University, must be hers. But she could not open the door. Nor could s...
Scottish engineering From ships to satellites How high-end engineering escaped industrial meltdown Box me up Scotty SCOTLAND may not have broken off from Britain last year, but at least it got into space. Overshadowed by the ballyhoo over the referen...
