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Why no women?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 22/01/2022
» Re: "PPRP renegades unveil party: Sang Anakot Thai aims to heal economy", (BP, Jan 20). Your front-page photograph illustrating the formation of the new Palang Pracharath Party (Building Thailand's Future) is a line-up of old and bold politicians from the past -- all of them men.
Humanity might have been born to live in cities
Oped, Greg Woolf, Published on 29/04/2021
» The spread of cities over the last 6,000 years is a global phenomenon -- not because cities originated in one place and spread out over the planet, but because people invented cities, out of nothing, so many times.
Save the old or save the economy?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/04/2020
» The basic choice all along with Covid-19 has been: Do we let the old die, or do we take a big hit economically? So far, the decision almost everywhere has been to take the hit and save the old (or most of them), but in some places it has been a very near-run thing.
Covid-19 offers odd glimpse of a new future
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/03/2020
» They teach you in journalism school never to use the phrase "...X has changed the world forever". Or at least they should. Covid-19 is certainly not going to change the world forever, but it is going to change quite a few things, in some cases for a long time. Here's nine of them, in no particular order.