How long can the global housing boom last?
Jan 4th 2022HALIFAX, CANADANOVA SCOTIA’S largest city is known for a few things: a big national-security conference that takes place every autumn; a huge explosion that took place in 1917, causing immense devastation; and a small but impressive wine industry. It may soon be known for something else. Since December 2019 house prices in Halifax…
Richard Leakey was a champion of animal conservation and parliamentary democracy
Jan 3rd 2022Richard Leakey, who died on January 2nd aged 77, was the heir on both sides to a dynasty of palaeontologists who helped prove that Africa was where humankind emerged—a notion that was controversial to many until the 1970s. But it was as a rousing advocate, first in the service of wildlife conservation and…
Is India prepared for Omicron?
MANY INDIANS would have loved to slam the door on 2021 with a loud bang of good riddance. Instead, celebrations for this new year proved muted. As the highly contagious Omicron variant of covid-19 started spreading in late December police in Mumbai, the country’s commercial hub, banned public gatherings. Half a dozen states, along with…