Towards the Silk Road Lanzhou is a relatively small industrial city by Chinese standards, only 3 million people, with rich deposits of oil, coal, nickel, chromium, lead, limestone, gypsum and marble helping to explain its rapid development from ‘barren, backward and impoverished’. Set between mountains […]
The writhings of worldwide Anglicanism are another reason to disestablish the Church of England Aug 7th 2008 From The Economist print edition IN THE end it held together, but only just. The 650-odd bishops who attended the once-a-decade Lambeth conference went home with open schism […]
The question is not ‘What do I do IN my retirement?’ . . . rather ‘What do I do WITH my retirement?’ The very word ‘retirement’ conjures up something different for each and everyone one of us. I wonder what it means for you? What […]
At 63, Allen Carr had been seriously ill. After a year of self doubt and depression he decided to follow a regime which not only brought him back to fitness, but saw him running the Hastings Half Marathon in 2 hours 35 minutes. Allen Carr: […]
The dating game may appear to have changed beyond all recognition, but don’t panic, advises Carol Dix You’re over 50 and it’s possibly decades since you ever gave dating a thought. It’s certainly a lot different to what it was 20 – 30 years ago. Internet […]
By Juris Geste – posted Friday, 25 July 2008 The Garnaut prescription for dealing with our greenhouse emissions is indeed wicked. Professor Garnaut himself describes the challenges ahead as diabolical, equivalent to “tails I win, heads you loose”. There are all kinds of prognostications about […]
1st July 2008 In the wake of the surprisingly large swing against Labor in the Gippsland by-election last Saturday, Kevin Rudd could well do with a Peter Walsh in his Cabinet. The West Australian senator was the finance minister during Bob Hawke’s reforming Labor government […]
The long boom turns to bust THE road from Mildura to Merbein, in north-west Victoria, is a sad sight. Many of its farms are covered with wine grapes, dying on the vines. Farmers planted the vines hoping to cash in on the seemingly endless boom […]
The great Catholic document on human rights is Pacem In Terris, the 1963 encyclical of Pope John XXIII. He said: It is generally accepted today that the common good is best safeguarded when personal rights and duties are guaranteed. The chief concern of civil authorities […]
If you crave adventure, have time on your hands, money in the bank and are interested in the arts you could very well be, a cultural tourist. Wanting much more than sightseeing and shopping or indulging in beach bathing, this type of consumer dreams of […]