Brexit really has meant Brexit: ‘Let them eat cake’
by Rashmee
Posted on February 1, 2021
/ BREXIT BRITAIN In the month since Brexit properly began, consider all the things that …
Read MoreMemory and forgetting. Here’s why and how to remember the Nazis’ many many victims
by Rashmee
Posted on January 27, 2021
Every year, January 27 is given over to remembering the Holocaust but might there be …
Read MorePopulism and the overabundance of PhDs
by Rashmee
Posted on December 10, 2020
Some little time ago I heard a science journalist on a podcast discussing populism in …
Read MoreCan the WTO hit the reset button on global trade?
by Rashmee
Posted on November 18, 2020 / The National
While the world’s eyes were fixed on the US presidential election, another consequential, if …
Read MoreThe US has already elected to exit the Paris climate pact. It happens today
by Rashmee
Posted on November 4, 2020
Today, the United States formally leaves the 2015 Paris agreement to fight climate change. That …
Read MoreDonald Trump’s America is trying to gaslight the world – without much success
by Rashmee
Posted on August 17, 2020
On August 14, the Trump administration’s attempt to indefinitely extend a UN arms embargo on …
Read MoreOnce upon a time there were black swans - now there are gray rhinos and the pandemic is one of them
by Rashmee
Posted on July 2, 2020 / The Focus
Once upon a time there were black swans. Now, there are gray rhinos. Nassim Nicholas …
Read MoreTrump eviscerates G7 - and America’s leadership
by Rashmee
Posted on May 31, 2020 / The Focus
Donald Trump wants to turn the G7 group of advanced economies into the ‘G10 or …
Read MoreBlack swans, grey rhinos and the global oil market
by Rashmee
Posted on March 15, 2020 / The Arab Weekly
Until Russia’s refusal to accede to production cuts, the global oil market was suffering the …
Read MoreIs Le Carre’s ‘Agent Running in the Field’ really about the decline and fall of the West?
by Rashmee
Posted on October 26, 2019
It’s been a couple of hours since I finished ‘Agent Running in the Field’, John …
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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