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Saturday 25/February/2017 14:34 PM

Economists in denial

Early last month, Andy Haldane, Chief Economist at the Bank of England, blamed “irrational behaviour” for the failure of the BoE’s recent forecasting...

Saturday 25/February/2017 14:22 PM

Tony Blair’s democratic insurrection

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s recent call for voters to think again about leaving the European Union, echoed in parliamentary debates ahead...

Wednesday 22/February/2017 21:59 PM

Google fact check in three countries

Times of Oman designers depict a world around them through illustrations everyday, either to enhance the visual elements of a story or as a standalone...

Wednesday 22/February/2017 14:54 PM

A conservative plan to combat global warming

I recently joined several other former senior Republican officials in proposing a plan to limit carbon dioxide emissions. The group includes Jim Baker,...

Wednesday 22/February/2017 14:35 PM

The World Trade Organisation reborn?

For too long, the World Trade Organisation has languished, to lift a reference from T.S. Eliot, by the “waters of Leman” (Lake Geneva). Once the...

Wednesday 22/February/2017 14:31 PM

Europe’s critical elections

Upcoming elections in the Netherlands, France, and Germany will be held in what is arguably the most febrile political environment since the European...

Tuesday 21/February/2017 15:11 PM

Only Germans love the euro these days

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen unsettled investors with her pledge to pull France out of the euro and re-denominate all French debt in newly...