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Recognising the humanity of Ethiopia
An encounter with a cabbie has ROGER McKENZIE reflecting on the remarkable history of a great African nation and the importance of migrants and their skills for our beloved NHS
Villagers in Asmut, Ethiopia, put on a traditional welcome
for UN Special Envoy for El Nino and Climate Mary Robinson, in 2016
YANA PETTICREW explains what’s behind the strike and how the entire sector rests on super-exploiting an unorganised workforce
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
BILL KIDD MSP says increasing Britain’s nuclear arsenal at this time is dangerous and expensive folly
ROGER McKENZIE asks whether the US’s shift to targeting everyone at once will instil greater co-operation among rising powers
AFTER the relief of finally tracking down a taxi that would take a debit card on a hectic Saturday night near Cardiff railway station, my wife and I got chatting with the driver.
The driver, who was willing to take us back to our hotel by a convenient cash point, originally hailed from Ethiopia and, it turned out, knew our home town of Oxford because he had trained there as a radiologist.
There is so much to unpick from that one sentence.
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