Honouring the works of Owen and Sassoon, the BBC will send Simon Armitage, who was tipped for the poet laureate\’s job, to Helmand province to capture the lives of British troops in conflict
When Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon told of life in first world war trenches, technology did not allow soldiers to kill at long [...]
At next week\’s US-Israel summit, a change in mood music will not be enough. A radical shift in strategy is needed
Binyamin Netanyahu can comfort himself with one thought as he heads to Washington next week. At least when he stands alongside a popular US president who radically disagrees with him on the future of [...]
RESTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Clarabridge, the leading provider of text mining software used by many Global 1000 companies to improve customer experience management (CEM), announced today that they were named a winner
Labour will use science as the primary means to achieve a healthy and prosperous Britain
Is scientific inquiry that seeks to understand the building blocks of our universe fundamentally different from – or somehow better than – science directed at building a wind turbine? In practice, the distinction between pure and applied science is seldom clear. [...]
Bankers and MPs are just the most egregious cases of widespread avarice. A new, green life requires a radical break with the past
In the MPs\’ expenses controversy there is plenty to entertain and horrify, but the question that nags away unanswered is a very simple one: how did they feel entitled to make all these [...]
With timing as beautiful as its conclusion is obvious, the charity Sense About Science has announced, with a triumphant calloo callay, that detox paraphernalia, which sprout up every January as reliably as overoptimistic gym memberships, are as medically effective as medieval blood-letting cures.
Of course, one should expect trustworthiness from major UK retailers. But, really, [...]
One night, in a bar in Zanzibar, I saw two sex workers chatting up a couple of Germans. The men were in their 50s, paunchy and balding – the women were young and pretty. It was a painful sight, the Germans plying the women with drinks and single entendre; the women laughing as though their [...]
All is confusion. The political landscape of a world roiled by recession is all but unrecognisable. Voters stagger around like the cast of the now-revived TV drama Survivors, bewildered figures trying to make sense of a political geography where nothing stands where it used to be and nothing is as it was.
In this new [...]
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Passion at the HelmHuman Resource Executive Online, PA - 13 hours agoAs a result, IBM allocated up to $100 million to explore 10 promising new business opportunities, including real-time language translation services and …