Ali M. Mahmoud

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?

3 weeks ago | thearticle.com | Stephen Rand |Sameer Hinduja |Ali M. Mahmoud

“Liberation Day” saw Trump at his Trumpiest. Made for television, aimed squarely at his populist base. Either you’re with us or against us—and those who are against us are conspirators who will be crushed. The policy itself was blunt: a 10% blanket levy on all imports into the United States, with targeted tariffs of up to 54% for major rivals. It sent a shudder through the global trading system. And yet, for once, Britain appears to have dodged the worst of it.

3 weeks ago | thearticle.com | David Herman |Ali M. Mahmoud

I was recently interviewed on BBC4 about the famous BBC interview series, Face to Face, originally shown between 1959-62, and then reborn as part of BBC 2’s The Late Show, between 1989-98. My interview is now available here on BBC iPlayer. The original series of Face to Face was a series of interviews, conducted by John Freeman. It became well known for a number of reasons. Freeman was an accomplished interviewer and a well-known figure in post-war British culture.

3 weeks ago | thearticle.com | Heidi Kingstone |Sameer Hinduja |Ali M. Mahmoud

Tulips, daisies, lilacs, hosts of daffodils…and genocide: all proliferate in April. Suicide and depression rates are highest in April and perhaps it is no surprise that Genocide Awareness Month also falls now, the beginning of the fourth month of the year: a time of renewal, the end of decay, the possibility of hope, brighter skies — and the killing season. “April is the cruellest month,” as T.S. Eliot says in The Waste Land.

3 weeks ago | thearticle.com | Jeffrey Meyers |Sameer Hinduja |Ali M. Mahmoud

Member ratings Well argued: 100% Interesting points: 100% Agree with arguments: 100% 3 ratings - view all The photograph of Anne’s silky black hair, bright eyes and charming smile on the cover of her brilliant and tragic Diary of a Young Girl (English edition 1952) has attracted readers throughout the world. She was born in Frankfurt and wrote in Dutch, and her name was pronounced in the German way: AH-na Frrahnk.