>"Options include privatisation and a listing in Hong Kong."

"When President Barack Obama's decision to scrap a planned missile defense system in the fall of 2009 left a pair of European allies feeling jilted, Vice President Joe Biden embarked on a three-day tour to coax relations back to health."

>"EU energy ministers are discussing the energy crisis, prompting fears UK could be cut off their gas and electricity supplies due to Brexit."

>"Relaxation is part of government rethink designed to keep users away from illegal market"

>"The change came after years of research by a team of about 40 Microsoft designers."

What strikes me about both is that, even during a pandemic—maybe especially during a pandemic—the threat of public scrutiny is overwhelming. Society can be so cruel that some people are more afraid of judgment than they are afraid of germs.

>"At his Senate confirmation hearing, Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland awakened a violent chapter in our history—and vowed to write a _...Read More_

>"Our nation’s failure to invest in information technology has severely limited our Covid response. A federal chief experience officer could change that."

On  Sunday, 2,000 people gathered in Friedrichshain for the traditional “LL-Demo.” Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the two founders of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), were assassinated 102 years ago, and are always remembered on _...Read More_

>"The “gentrification-industrial complex” isn’t who anti-growth progressives think it is."

>"The ‘gentrification-industrial complex’ isn’t who anti-growth progressives think it is."

>"Brexit comes to an end in characteristic fashion: with no time to spare and a bitter dispute about fish."

>"No spy novel has captured England—or the human capacity for duplicity—like John le Carré’s hunt for the mole."