‘The world’s most effective democratically elected leader today’?
by Rashmee
Posted on October 22, 2021
“Bad news travels. Good news doesn’t”. Thus begins veteran Singapore diplomat Kishore Mahbubani’s piece …
Read MoreThe most important news out of Brussels this week isn’t happening
by Rashmee
Posted on October 21, 2021
Everything – except the one thing that really matters — is happening in Brussels this …
Read MoreDid Gurnah win the literature Nobel for his prose or politics?
by Rashmee
Posted on October 20, 2021
Researching a piece on the newly minted Nobel literature laureate, I came across a suggestion…
Read MoreHow to solve the sunchokes or Jerusalem ‘fartichokes’ issue
by Rashmee
Posted on October 19, 2021
With the Jerusalem artichokes in my back yard growing to 15 feet, I knew …
Read MoreGovernments should mark World Food Day every day
by Rashmee
Posted on October 18, 2021
The second World Food Day under a deadly pandemic has come and gone (on Saturday, …
Read MoreThe mystery of the mutinous workers
by Rashmee
Posted on October 17, 2021
The US national press is preoccupied with beltway politics but the biggest story may actually …
Read MoreAbdulrazak Gurnah makes little concession to literary fads
by Rashmee
Posted on October 16, 2021
When Abdulrazak Gurnah was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, …
Read MoreWhat Hungary does today, America does tomorrow?
by Rashmee
Posted on October 15, 2021
It was Disraeli who supposedly said of the English heart of the industrial revolution that …
Read MoreProblems with supply chains aren’t exactly enthusing the anti-globalisation brigade
by Rashmee
Posted on October 13, 2021
Everyone’s talking about supply chains and the perceptible effects of the fact that they’re loose …
Read MoreWorkers of the world are uniting — we’re seeing it happen
by Rashmee
Posted on October 12, 2021
You don’t need a sign by a major road in Milwaukee to tell you the …
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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK