20 October 2016 Week in Brief: International Europe AUSTRIA: The government has bought the house in Braunau where Adolf Hitler was born, and plans to demolish it so it can’t become a neo-Nazi shrine. BELGIUM: The Wallonian parliament has blocked the trade deal between the EU and Canada. FRANCE: In the first debate between the candidates… Continue reading Issue76:2016 10 20: Week in Brief International
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Issue 63:2016 07 21: The Other Side of the Hill (Neil Tidmarsh)
21 July 2016 The Other Side of the Hill The new Cold War and an old problem with guesswork. by Neil Tidmarsh “All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know from what you do; that’s what I call ‘guessing what was… Continue reading Issue 63:2016 07 21: The Other Side of the Hill (Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 52:2016 05 05: The Hunger Gap (Neil Tidmarsh)
05 May 2016 The Hunger Gap Food for thought. by Neil Tidmarsh Have they gone too far this week? The pro-Russian separatists of Ukraine might have got away with the annexation of Crimea, they might have got away with establishing the breakaway peoples’ republics of Luhansk and Donetsk, but have they at last bitten off… Continue reading Issue 52:2016 05 05: The Hunger Gap (Neil Tidmarsh)
Issue 19: 2015 09 10:INTERNATIONAL NEWS
10 September 2015 Week in Brief:INTERNATIONAL NEWS AFGHANISTAN: Thirteen Shia Muslims were murdered in Balkh province. The Taliban have condemned the attack and have blamed it on Isis. In-fighting among the Taliban has broken out as break-away factions challenge the power of its new leader, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, and some defect to Isis.… Continue reading Issue 19: 2015 09 10:INTERNATIONAL NEWS
