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Food, glorious food¹

Recent discussions about government provision of school lunches have spurred memories of my own schooldays. At primary school, I experienced a Labour government’s, reportedly, world-first...

Shocking and awful

The recent diplomatic stoush between New Zealand and the Cook Islands provided a fascinating glimpse of the possible future of world affairs. Meanwhile, China can...

Going up in smoke

One of the grimmest of the current global ironies is that newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump will inherit responsibility for dealing with the...

WHY OH WHY?

I began visiting South Korea just before the country hosted its first Olympic Games in 1988. There were already signs of building and renewal...

Taking the temperature

It is easy to feel despair when we contemplate the accelerating pace of global climate change and lack of substantive action to deal with...
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