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The final straw in Cuomo’s poor pandemic response

03 Feb 2021

Alexander Heffner, The Independent American deaths from the pandemic — 443,000 and rising — hover between the 418,500 in the Second World War and an estimated 620,000 in the US...

Teacher-bashing has become national sport

31 Jan 2021

James Moore, The Independent A question for parents: do you think “yay, school’s out” on Friday night before taking a deep dive into a beverage produced from grain or grape...

Biden must make crushing Daesh a top priority

24 Jan 2021

To stabilise the Greater Middle East the Biden administration will have to rein in the rise of Daesh in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and North and Sub-Saharan Africa. Although President...

Matt Hancock is the economy’s best friend

24 Jan 2021

James Moore, The Independent The bonfire of good ideas lit by Boris Johnson’s government just keeps on getting fuelled. The latest to be thrown on the flames: a...

Sharjah’s care of elderly laudable

17 Jan 2021

Like the Big Heart Foundation, Sharjah has a big heart. It cares not only for its citizens, but also for expatriates and visitors. Improving the plight of the aged is...

Tough time

17 Jan 2021

The powerful earthquake in Indonesia that killed at least 35 people and damaged huge properties is painful news (“At least 35 killed as quake rocks Indonesia,” Jan.14, Gulf Today website)....

Why quitting WhatsApp doesn’t make good sense

16 Jan 2021

Rupert Hawksley, The Independent Such a dilemma, isn’t it? You either prostrate yourself at the feet of Mark Zuckerberg, offer up your private information as data, and make the tech...

China may present a ‘sanitised’ picture

15 Jan 2021

The visit by a WHO team to Wuhan sounds significant at first sight, but it may not yield the desired result or depict the right picture, thanks to strict Chinese...

Use the network

15 Jan 2021

Countries like Russia, US and even UK are struggling to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine expeditiously, across their regions. This is sad. Now that the vaccine is available in many countries,...

Real change in racial inequality is a long way off

14 Jan 2021

Ian Hamilton, The Independent Not only are young black men much more likely to be stopped and searched by the police, they are four times more likely to be detained...

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