Refugees The hard journey Europe's plan to cope with maritime refugees needs to go further THE gulf between sentiment and action is as wide as the Mediterranean itself. On May 13th the European Commission issued its plan for dealing with immigration,...
Shoemaking Asian brogue Exports help to revive the high end of Britain's decimated shoe industry FROM the attic of his cramped old factory in the middle of Northampton, Stephen Etheridge, the head of Church's, a shoemaker, gazes down on the deserted...
Air pollution Not breathing easy A Supreme Court ruling forces the government to deal with dirty air BRITISH air is much clearer than it once was: in 1952 one pea souper smog in London(see photo) caused the deaths of around 4,000 people in a week. Bu...
Mitochondria and male lifespan Power down Women outlive men. An evolutionary curiosity may explain this Mankiller? WHY past generations regarded women as the weaker sex is a mystery to anyone who has examined the question objectively, for they are fa...
Religion in Sierra Leone All things happily to all men Sierra Leone bucks a west African trend by celebrating its religious tolerance THE minibuses that ferry Sierra Leoneans around their capital, Freetown, bear a variety of religious slogans. Trust...
Top Gear High-octane antics Motormouth Jeremy Clarkson is suspended from the BBC's hit show WHEN Jeremy Clarkson suggests switching off the VSC on a Toyota GT86 sports car to do better doughnuts around the Top Gear test track at Dunsfold Aerodrome in...
Iraq's Christians Nearly all gone The conquering jihadists are evicting or killing Mosul's last Christians At least he's aliveamong the Kurds FEW of the Christian women fleeing to safety in northern Iraq arrived wearing rings in their ears or on thei...
Politics this week Hillary Clinton announced that she is running for the White House in 2016. She vowed to get unaccountable money out of politics once and for all, even if that takes a constitutional amendment. Her campaign is expected to raise at l...
China Housing Why grumble? silver lining to the housing cloud JUST how bad is China's housing bubble? One important measurethe most important for those trying to get a foot on the property ladderis affordability. Many believe that Chinese housing pri...
Burying Richard III The hunch paid off Leicester does a better job of burying a Plantagenet king at the second attempt Top this, Tudors IT WAS reckoned to be Leicester's biggest turnout in decadesmaybe since the footballer Gary Lineker was made a fre...
