The World Today Drowned out by the many multilinguals That the English language is now dominant in the world should make life easier for its native speakers, one might think. Alas no. It means everyone else is at least bilingual and in a globalized market, more employable
The World Today The fate of a global language The Queen’s English is being pulled in many different directions around the world, but this is something to be celebrated
The World Today Q&A: How language learning affects the brain Ellen Bialystok is Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at York University, Toronto, and a leading researcher on the cognitive effects of bilingualism
The World Today America votes for anyone but Obama The Republicans may have won convincingly but they don’t feel the love
The World Today Sanctions: Giving Putin pause for thought The Kremlin was taken off-guard by the speed and severity of western sanctions, now exacerbated by the falling oil price
The World Today Sanctions: Tehran is hurting Sanctions are crippling the Iranian economy but internal politics still guides the leadership’s hand
The World Today Who owns English? Native speakers of English may congratulate themselves on being born with the global language preprogrammed into their brains.
The World Today Handshake that ended the Cold War The Malta summit poured oil on stormy waters but the problems finessed 25 years ago are threatening stability today
The World Today Postcard from... Lisbon, Portugal Portugal’s golden visa attracts the rich, but not everyone is happy
The World Today Corporate tax cuts don’t work They create few jobs and the investment they attract is footloose. Corporate tax rates are being slashed from 28 per cent in 2010 to 20 per cent in 2015, and a couple of other wheezes are turning Britain into a corporate tax haven to compete with Ireland or Luxembourg.
The World Today Hun Sen, the great survivor Hun Sen’s Cambodia Sebastian Strangio, Yale University Press, £20.00
The World Today Global warming down on the farm The meat and dairy industries have as much an effect on global warming as transport yet public awareness is still low
The World Today Rula Ghani The role of a ‘first lady’ in Afghanistan is fraught with historical baggage
The World Today Ten years of Freedom of Information requests Open government has its costs, but they are worth paying
The World Today Documenting Ukraine’s rebirth pangs Maidan, a 2014 documentary film directed by Serhiy Loznytsia, now on general release
The World Today Regina Catrambone, co-founder of the Migrant Offshore Aid Station MOAS is the first privately funded search and rescue operation
