At first blush, the poisoning death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko by a dose of highly radioactive polonium-210 evokes memories of a Cold War mystery in London from a generation ago...
The European Union (EU) had no scientific basis for imposing a moratorium on genetically modified crops, and therefore the ban is illegal, the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled on September 29...
Sitting with my academic colleagues in the gilded discomfort of Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre earlier this week, discussing the future governance of England's oldest university, I thought of GK Chesterton's remark that tradition is the democracy of the dead...
When the wolf at the door is big enough, the easiest way to deal with him is to invite him in for supper and hope he's content to eat just the wife and kids...
Until a week ago, Alexander Litvinenko, a former colonel in the Russian Federal Security Service, the FSB, was virtually unknown outside the murky world of Russian intelligence...
European Union officials face a difficult meeting today with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, after Poland stuck with its decision to veto the start of talks on a new EU-Russia framework agreement...
The passing of the great free market theorist Milton Friedman and the big problems of Airbus, a heavily subsidized European consortium, seem like a classic case of synchronicity — the occurrence of two seemingly random events that are subtly connected...
