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The King’s Speech

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“Mr Vice President, Mr Speaker, Members of Congress, representative of the American people across all states, territories cities and communities I would like to take this opportunity to express my particular gratitude to all for the great honour  of addressing this joint meeting of Congress and on behalf of the Queen and myself to thank the American people for welcoming us to the United States to mark this semi- Semiquincentennial year of Declaration of Independence. As my Prime Minister said last month Ours is an indispensable partnership.The executive power is   Subject to checks and balances.” It was a Masterclass in soft diplomacy … Continue reading The King’s Speech

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 Insight into India’s economic prosperity and dramatic growth

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Arvind Subramanian, a former chief economic adviser to the Indian government, and Devesh Kapur, a professor at John Hopkins University, provides a definitive guide to India’s 75-year development odyssey and dramatic growth. Democracy took root upon its independence in 1947, before significant development, social change and nation-building efforts. India’s development path skewed towards high-skilled service jobs, while a majority remain in fragile informal work. The authors compare relatively successful states such as Kerala with those that have struggled, including West Bengal and Punjab.  They reveal diagnosis of a country that has achieved impressive growth while struggling to translate it into broad-based … Continue reading  Insight into India’s economic prosperity and dramatic growth

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Subversion of old Africa by the ways of the outside world

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Nobel Prize-winning author, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul’s The Masque of Africa is all about African belief, begins in Uganda, at the centre of the continent, do Ghana and Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and Gabon, and end at the bottom of the continent, in South Africa. My theme is belief, not political or economical life, and yet at the bottom of the continent the political realities are so overwhelming that they have to be taken into account. “Perhaps an unspoken aspect of my inquiry was the possibility of the subversion of old Africa by the ways of the outside world. The theme … Continue reading Subversion of old Africa by the ways of the outside world

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Murders connected to drug trafficking in elite units

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In December 2020, a deer hunter discovered two dead bodies that had been riddled with bullets and dumped in forested corner of Fort Bragg, one of the dead men, Master Sergeant William “Billy” Lavigne, was a member of Delta Force. The other victim, Chief Warrant Officer Timothy Dumas, was a quartermaster attached to the Special forces who used his proximity to clandestine missions to steal guns and traffic drugs into the United States from abroad, and had written a blackmail letter threatening to expose criminality in the special operations task force in Afghanistan. Seth Harp, an Iraq war veteran and … Continue reading Murders connected to drug trafficking in elite units

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Football’s original master

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HH: Helenio Herrera is the compelling story of football’s most notorious coach, and one of the finest minds in football, nicknamed “IL Mago” (The Wizard) after bringing European Cup glory to Inter Milan in successive years. The explosive book explores the enigma of the incredibly charismatic HH a philanderer, charlatan, thrash-talker and serial winner mired in controversy. His stellar career was halted by the death of one of his star players and his subsequent trial for manslaughter. He revolutionised football coaching. Preparing his teams meticulously, he was obsessed with his players’ mental toughness and introduced idiosyncratic psychological techniques. Herrera began … Continue reading Football’s original master

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Money, power and family feud: Where getting everything you want costs everything you love

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Rupert Murdoch’s business gave him control over his children, as they wanted his approval and so they fell into his trap. When Murdoch made a fateful decision about who should inherit his media colossus, he believed that pitting his children against each other would produce the most capable heir. Twenty-five years later, that gamble would tear apart one of the world’s most powerful families and trigger a multi-billion dollar reckoning in a succession battle featuring betrayals, lawsuits, and revenge plots. Estrangements between famous fathers and their children are often grabbing news headlines: King Charles and Prince Harry, David andf Brooklyn … Continue reading Money, power and family feud: Where getting everything you want costs everything you love

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Immigration practical pitfalls of making policy

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Alan Manning – former chair of the UK’s Migration Advisory Committee- makes it clear, this doesn’t mean that we can’t do much better. In Why Immigration Policy is Hard, Manning says we should start by ditching simplistic views that frame immigration as either wholly good or wholly bad. We will always have, and need, some level of immigration. But just as inevitably, we will have rules on who can and cannot immigrate as more people are likely to want to move to high-income countries than residents will want to admit. To set those rules, we need reliable evidence to adjudicate … Continue reading Immigration practical pitfalls of making policy

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Law and justice system might touch our lives

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British Law and justice system might touch our lives when we have an accident, a wrong is done to us, or we have a family difficulty. They are vast, ancient and cover everything from the personal to the regulation of our government. But to most of us, they are a wen of intimidating institutions and practices. Baroness Hale, after spending a decade writing about England’s justice system, shows us how the law is on our side, by taking us into the complexities of real courts and real decisions, we see that we all have rights: schoolchildren, disabled people, workers, minorities … Continue reading Law and justice system might touch our lives

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Consequences of making poor decisions affecting billions

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Presidents turning into monarchs. Tech tycoons and autocrats intent on global regime change. Armies of cyber trolls. The old order is at an end. The Hour of the Predator has come. Former political adviserGiuliano da Empoli takes us on an insider’s journey through this new reality, from the Glass Palace of the UN to the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton, from top secret meetings to violent power struggles. We encounter dictators and tryants, strongmen and AI billionaires – geopolitical predators, and the flailing leaders whop desperately try to appease them. In the age of the Borgias or the conquistadors, cynical scheming and brute … Continue reading Consequences of making poor decisions affecting billions

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World of Organised Crime

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A bandit becomes a monarch, a gang becomes a government and organised crime at the heart of every modern state. Homo Criminalis shows the emergence of modern society through the evolution of the underworld and its crimes. From Chinese banditry and eighteenth-century English tea smuggling to today’s cocaine submarines and the high-tech crimes of tomorrow, showing how the world’s dark underbelly shapes us, no matter how we try to outpace it. Mark Galeotti, a prolific author specialising in Russia and organised crime, shows “our dynamic interconnected globalised networked cross-cultural world is so permeated by organised crime. It is very hard … Continue reading World of Organised Crime