This paper from the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) is causing an awful lot of fuss at the moment.
What it doesn’t say
“The question you have to pose is: what is this report suggesting we should have done? It is suggesting we should simply have put our heads down and hoped that we weren’t [...]

News is coming in of an explosion on a minibus in the Turkish Aegean coast holiday resort of Kusadasi. Reports are at this stage confused. It seems four people may be dead, two of them foreign tourists. Several British tourists are said to be seriously injured. The attack may be the work of a female [...]

Still problems but we should be able to see our posts and you be able to see your comments right away (though it takes a second longer than usual.)
…even slower. Expect various errors as we try various things.

There is considerable speculation taking place at the moment about the nature of the connections (if any) between the British born bombers and militant jihadists in Pakistan. One of the names which keeps appearing is that of the group Jaish-e-Mohammad. Now this name should remind us that this is not the first time [...]

As regards his more general attitude to the war, you must not rely too much on those feelings of hatred which the humans are so fond of discussing in Christian, or anti-Christian, periodicals. In his anguish, the patient can, of course, be encouraged to revenge himself by some vindictive feelings directed towards the German leaders, [...]

Police in Cairo may well have arrested Magdi el Nashar the chemistry PhD who is being sought by police in connection with the London bombings.
“Security forces in Egypt have arrested a man suspected of helping to make the bombs that killed 54 people in London last week. Scotland Yard has confirmed the arrest, saying that [...]

In a recent post I noted that, despite some improvements, good corporate governance isn’t something Germans have an easy time getting their heads round. The Financial Times Deutschland reports that there might be a good reason for this: in Germany, it doesn’t seem to matter much how well a corporation is governed.
As the FTD reports, [...]

Spain’s current account deficit doubled in April from a year earlier to 6.01 billion euros according to info given out by the Bank today. Currently imports are growing at 15.6% and exp?rts at only 8.5%. Sustainable dynamic?

On August 11, 1965 citizens of the United States woke up to news of an incident which, one way or another, changed fundamentally recent American history: the traffic arrest which lead to the Watts riots. The nature and context of the London Bombing may be different, but its impact on a nation may not be. [...]

The Times has just posted the following:

“Police believe that explosives used in the London bomb attacks may have been homemade and of a type that has been a hallmark of al-Qaeda operations, as the death toll from the July 7 atrocity rose to 54.
Forensic detectives believe that a flat in Leeds was used as a [...]