Cabo Girao in Madeira, Portugal.
At about noon on Christmas day 2002 I looked down at my heels and beyond them to a shining blue sea, some 70 metres (220
Dear Sir Globolog,
I know you will be surprised to read from me, but our mutual colleagues recommended you as a person of utmost integrity. Please consider this letter both
The June 2003 Pew Global Attitude Survey is being promoted as evidence that poorer countries are keener on globalisation than rich ones. Of the 38,000 people in 44 nations
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Harbour Seal sunbathing near
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Elephant fight, from a Moghul miniature
Trade
When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled. This proverb (African or Indian, depending on who you talk to) applies
The war was a disastrous failure of the imagination and an almost deliberate refusal to envisage the inevitable consequences of words and acts
made possible above all by the corruption
Starbucks, on the corner of H Street and 18th Street in Washington D.C, just across from the headquarters of the World Bank. Four cops, in baby blue shirts and
In the aftermath of a high-intensity military campaign in Iraq, many thoughts turn to rebuilding and reform and not just in Iraq.
Campaigners and activists are talking about progressive globalisation
The aftermath may be protracted but this Iraqi war is coming to its end.
When did it begin? The simple answer is 19 March 2003. Others would say that 11
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1553Sir Richard Willoughby creates the first English joint stock company
The stories we tell shape the future as well as the past. They are a way of making sense of being and time. This is true from the most intimate
