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Authoritarians' brave new cities
Oped, Robert Muggah & Carlo Ratti, Published on 23/09/2025
» Few policy ideas are as radical -- or as misleadingly packaged -- as "freedom cities". Championed by Silicon Valley's techno-libertarian elite and recently embraced by right-wing politicians like Donald Trump, the idea is to create digitally powered, master-planned enclaves of deregulated innovation.
Painting Pakistan
Oped, Postbag, Published on 30/04/2025
» Re: "India and Pakistan troops exchange fire", (World, April 28).
Our next top cop
Oped, Postbag, Published on 20/09/2024
» Re: "Top cop pick looms large", (Editorial, Sept 18) & "Top cop call likely to spur interference", (BP, Sept 16).
Sports stadiums echo ancient divisions
Oped, EDWARD WATTS, Published on 20/08/2022
» More than 230 amphitheatres, among the largest and most memorable monuments left to us by the Romans, survive in cities from northern England to the banks of the Jordan River. The Romans built amphitheatres for more than 500 years in a range of sizes -- from a capacity of a few thousand to 50,000 in the Colosseum -- using a variety of techniques. The amphitheatre at Pompeii was built in the first century BCE by workers who excavated hillsides, placed terraced seating on the packed soil, and erected retaining walls to hold the rows of seats in place. The amphitheatre in Bordeaux was built nearly 300 years later as a freestanding oval fashioned out of brick, concrete, and cut stone.
Great expectations
Oped, Postbag, Published on 25/06/2022
» Re: "Decree to remain in place: PM," (BP, June 21).
Not a weed pioneer
Oped, Postbag, Published on 18/06/2022
» Re: "Let's clear up ganja haze," (Editorial, June 17).
Sinovac makes sense
Oped, Postbag, Published on 20/08/2021
» Re: "Why more Sinovac?," (Editorial, Aug 18).
'Angel jab' for 'devil virus'?
Oped, Editorial, Published on 04/07/2020
» The development of an effective vaccine to halt the ongoing devastating human and economic toll seen around the world from the novel coronavirus that emerged in China last year would hold out hope against this deadly "devil virus".