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If fuel is reprocessed, it can be reused. But the reprocessing turns it into weapons-grade fuel, which means it can also be used to make big bangs

Anybody who has ever handled a horse and a car would testify that horse management is more difficult

It becomes a problem when it's displayed by policymakers and people of some influence

Start-up is a private B2B concern, which offers to verify employees and clients for its customers

It is easy for those who understand social media to make a living peddling falsehoods

There is near-absolute scientific consensus that climate change is proceeding apace

Govt makes far larger profits, service-providers collect fees, and users pay much higher costs

By the time cash is back in the system, the power and the desire to consume may well have been reduced

India will survive these rinse and repeat schemes. But it will probably revert to the fabled Hindu rate of growth (around 2-3 per cent of GDP)

Everyone queued for everything.... We were told all this queuing would, in some mysterious fashion, strengthen the nation

The scamming of Americans by Indians pretending to be officials of US govt departments has been going on for a long time

This presidential candidate's preferred "style of seduction" is to grab those organs without bothering to ask for permission

The town of Berwick-upon-Tweed lies on the border of Scotland and England. It changed hands many times in the Anglo-Scots wars

The industrial revolution swept across Europe and was exported to the rest of the world, in what now seems like slow motion

One official estimate is that about 2,000 foreign surrogate babies were delivered per annum until foreign surrogacy was banned in 2015

The real purpose of an Indian sports body is to liaison with the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs and derive as much by way of benefits from that liaison as possible

In 2008, the Australian government made an official apology for a 70-year programme of civilising the natives, which was colloquially known as "screwing them white". Only, Aussies being Aussies, they used another word as a synonym for "screwing".By the early 1900s, the Australian government knew that the native Australians, the so-called Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders did not fit into the Australian mainstream on many counts. First of all, the locals were the wrong colour. On top of that, the immigrants thought that these peoples had strange lifestyles. They were, by and large, nomads. They spoke their own languages (which lacked scripts). They ate anything that moved, which is useful in a dry, desert land. They used interesting psychotropic drugs for religious purposes, and all-round entertainment, rather than sticking to good old alcohol (which they had not learnt to distil). They tended to avoid transactions involving money, preferring to barter instead.Perhaps worst of all

The defining paradox of majoritarianism is that it's generally espoused by folks who are scared that they will soon become a minority

In a quiet, unacknowledged way, World War III (WWIII) has been work-in-progress for at least 15 years. WWIII is very different from its predecessors

The internet now offers a live viewership experience that beats TV hollow. I wonder how effectively this will be monetised