Alain Catzeflis

1 week ago | thearticle.com | Alain Catzeflis |Sameer Hinduja |Ali M. Mahmoud

Why do we keep selling what Harold Macmillan called “the family silver”? And why, when things don’t work or are about to go bust, do we expect the government to rescue our strategic industries, such as steel, burdened with crippling levels of debt partly incurred to line the pockets of wealthy foreign investors? Here’s another question: how come we’ve only just woken up to the fact that China may not always have our best interests at heart?

1 month ago | thearticle.com | Alain Catzeflis |Sameer Hinduja |Ali M. Mahmoud

Member ratings This article has not been rated yet. Be the first person to rate this article. A blitzkrieg – a “lightning war ” – is intended to overwhelm with surprise, speed and blinding firepower. The aim is to shock the enemy into believing resistance is futile. Donald Trump and his enforcer, Elon Musk, have spent the first three months of this presidency taking a chainsaw to America’s civil service.

1 month ago | thearticle.com | Alain Catzeflis |Sameer Hinduja |Ali M. Mahmoud

Member ratings Well argued: 75% Interesting points: 75% Agree with arguments: 100% 1 rating - view all Keir Starmer is good in a crisis. The Prime Minister has risen to the challenge of Donald Trump’s pivot to Russia with self-assurance and poise. The collapse in trust between America and its closest allies over the war in Ukraine has catapulted Starmer to the top table of European leaders.

2 months ago | thearticle.com | Alain Catzeflis |Ali M. Mahmoud |Sameer Hinduja

The tragedy of Gaza has reached a point where suffering has almost lost its meaning: millions living in a broken world, a hell on earth, while cadaverous hostages emerge after nearly 500 days of subterrestrial captivity. Horror on our screens has become commonplace. But the agony of the innocent caught up in the cataclysmic Gaza war is made immeasurably more painful by two, alternative versions of what happens next.

2 months ago | thearticle.com | Alain Catzeflis |Sameer Hinduja

Nobody does it quite like the Buddhists. Two and a half thousand years after its Hindu founder left his princely realm in Nepal to seek enlightenment, Buddhism remains a hip, top-of-the-range religion. It’s also a player. It shapes the fate of nations. Outwardly at least, or at any rate from a western perspective, Buddhism is less strident than Islam and more approachable than Judaism. Its image is less tainted than the scandal-battered Christian churches. Buddhism is cool.