In 2 recent blogs (Afghani interpreters still left to their fate, 3rd Sept 2015 & John Oliver on “Translators”: The plight of Afghani interpreters, 12th Feb, 2015) we highlighted the plight of the Afghan interpreters who risked their lives to help British forces in the conflict zones. We reported the seemingly shameful treatment meted out to them by the British government (and
The Sunday Times Culture magazine of August 2 contained, as it so often does, an interesting book review, written by the paper’s economics editor, David Smith. The sub-headline was encouraging: “The return of the rock star economist”, it proclaimed. The unlikely economic rock star is Thomas Piketty whose 2014 book “Capital in the 21st century” created a stir which in
Whilst the news media continue to focus on the plight of migrants in Kos and in Calais, they seem curiously reluctant to reveal the fate of people to whom Britain does owe a debt of gratitude. These people are foreign, they work in the war-torn Middle East, and they have served both US and British interests in that conflict zone.
