Ahram Online Europe rallied around France on Tuesday, over the US and Australian decision to strip Paris of a submarine supply contract, as the dispute threatened to delay trade talks with Washington and Canberra. “France’s diplomatic crisis with the US was a wake-up call for all of us on the …
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Muscat – Times of Egypt: Oman Air, the national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman, will resume flights between Muscat and London (Heathrow) starting 22 September 2021. The flights will operate three times weekly on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, departing Muscat at 14:25 local time and arriving in London at …
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London – Times of Egypt The United Kingdom’s Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, announced on Friday an overhaul to the kingdom’s COVID-19 travel regulations, which included taking Egypt off ‘the red list’ and scraping the traffic light coding system. “Eight countries are being removed from the red list as of Wednesday …
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The cause of the precariat isn’t helped by fuzzy thinking about who and what it is. Guy Standing* Numerous articles and reports, including some in Social Europe, have referred to the growth of ‘precarious work’. This term muddles several notions that should be distinguished. Unless we use terms correctly, we risk …
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Recognition of the EU’s gravitational pull on ‘global Britain’, and so any rapprochement, will take many years. Paul McGrade* The post-Brexit relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union has been characterised by sour and suspicious competition. But can the UK maintain its resistance to full implementation of the Protocol on …
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A by-election in Northern England highlights the corrosive atrophying of the UK body politic, Paul Mason writes. Paul Mason* Last week’s by-election in Batley & Spen, an old Yorkshire manufacturing town with a Labour tradition and a large postwar South-Asian Muslim population, has opened up a new chapter in post-Brexit politics. With …
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Kate Pickett argues the pandemic has not only massively affected public health but compounded the unhealthy effects of years of job insecurity. Kate Pickett* A recent article in the Guardian by a financial adviser recommended setting up several bank accounts for one’s personal finances. The advice, all sensible, was to help people manage their …
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If consumers are not given the tools to go green, then their eco-awakening could doom the climate. Isabel Schatzschneider* Biodiversity loss threatens at least one million animals and plants species with extinction. But as we celebrated United Nations International Day for Biodiversity (May 22nd) we saw a silver lining: consumers are …
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Labour’s electoral debacle, Paul Mason writes, epitomises European social democracy’s coalition-building challenge. It just doesn’t see it that way. Paul Mason* In British politics, the proverbial penny has finally dropped. With Labour’s abject defeat in the Hartlepool by-election, the party’s loss of council seats in working-class areas—not just to the Conservatives but to the …
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Kate Pickett widens the panorama from the all-consuming coverage in Britain of the death of Prince Philip to ask why human lives and labours are so differentially valued. Kate Pickett* On April 9th, the husband of England’s queen died at the age of 99. The queen of the United Kingdom …
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