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Big bank mergers off the table

Published July 6, 2009, 4:42 am, National Post

The global financial crisis may have taken mergers among Canadian banks off the table once and for all as the breakdown of major financial institutions around the world has shown that bigger is not necessarily better.

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Have we reached the end of the line for Thatcher's privatisation dream?

Published July 5, 2009, 11:38 am, Guardian Unlimited

First it was the banks, now the government is taking over a key rail service. But it may not be enough to reverse the process begun by Thatcher. By Richard Wachman and Tim Webb Nationalisation used to be a dirty word, but now it's back in vogue. The government's move last week to nationalise the east coast rail franchise comes in the wake of the state's takeover of parts of the UK banking ...

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The power of now

Published July 5, 2009, 11:21 am, Guardian Unlimited

There are some events that are simply too overwhelming and terrible to confront immediately How should fiction tackle subjects as immediate as the expenses scandal or Bernard Madoff's fraud? Which novels and plays - from Dickens to David Hare - have best captured current events? Ferdinand Mount on what makes politics work in literature At some stage in their lives, writers of all sorts hear the ...

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Have we reached the end of the line for privatisation?

Published July 4, 2009, 5:15 pm, u.tv

First it was the banks, now the government is taking over a key rail service. But it may not be enough to reverse the process. By Richard Wachman and Tim Webb

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Life, Liberty and Benign Monarchy?

Published July 3, 2009, 7:55 am, New York Times

Democracy in the United States has been a great success, but during the revolution in 1776 its supremacy in promoting human rights was far from inevitable.

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Rheumatoid arthritis signal molecule found

Published July 2, 2009, 4:11 pm, redOrbit

British scientists say they have identified a signal molecule made by the body that triggers chronic inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis. Researchers from Imperial College London say if scientists could block that signal, it might be possible to develop more effective arthritis treatments. When a microbe infects the body, the body responds by turning on a molecular switch to set the immune ...

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Rheumatoid arthritis signal molecule found

Published July 2, 2009, 12:44 pm, UPI

LONDON, July 2 (UPI) -- British scientists say they have identified a signal molecule made by the body that triggers chronic inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis.

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Tobacco Underground

Published July 2, 2009, 12:00 pm, KYIV Post

The hang glider pilot insisted it was a routine flight, and that strong winds had blown him over the border from Hungary into Ukraine.

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THE PEDESTRIAN: You’ve come a long way, mankind

Published July 1, 2009, 10:16 pm, The Malay Mail

I WAS caught completely offguard when trudging along a cemented path, outside some houses in Bangsar and towards the shopping centre at the top of the hill.

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Adrian Hamilton: How can Iranians mend their broken Islamic Republic?

Published July 1, 2009, 4:32 pm, Independent

David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, ought to be pleased with Iran. There is no one else left in the world who would categorise Britain as uniquely evil or threatening, let alone important enough to go for full-scale diplomatic confrontation. If only we did have the power or means to destabilise other countries, as we have been accused of. But, on the whole, we huff and we puff, as we have ...

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