Archive for April, 2007


What is the scale of world poverty?

April 16th, 2007 by Roger Darlington

Global poverty rates continued to fall in the first four years of the 21st century according to new estimates published in the “World Development Indicators 2007”, released this week by the World Bank. The proportion of people living on less than $1 a day fell to 18.4 percent in 2004, leaving an estimated 985 million […]

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The problems of new technology

April 16th, 2007 by Roger Darlington

Some people take a while to get used to it – check it out here.

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Back from Israel

April 15th, 2007 by Roger Darlington

Hi, I’m back from a week’s holiday in Israel. Vee and I went there with our very good American Jewish friend Eric – who lived there for 18 years – and his teenage son Yonatan. We rented a car and Vee did all the driving, so we were able to see varied parts of this […]

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It is Yom HaShoah

April 15th, 2007 by Roger Darlington

I returned yesterday from a week in Israel – my first visit. Yom HaShoah is a day of rememberance of the Holocaust which is marked on 15 April each year in Israel and among Jewish communities around the world. My American Jewish friend Art Shostak has written an article to mark the event and you […]

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A break for NightHawk

April 6th, 2007 by Roger Darlington

NightHawk will be static for a week as I go on holiday to Israel. Perhaps, in the meantime, you could take the opportunity to look around some of the 100 or so sections of my web site. Normal service will be resumed shortly, so please don’t go away.

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Having trouble with your PC?

April 6th, 2007 by Roger Darlington

BT’s Home IT advisors are supposed to be trained to cope with anything that is thrown at them and a recent survey reveals some IT issues that have left BT’s specialist advice team scratching their heads. Some of the calls from customers may raise a smile, but I guess what they highlight is a demand […]

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Why doesn’t China stop the genocide in Darfur?

April 5th, 2007 by Roger Darlington

It is beginning to look as if only China, as Sudan’s biggest economic and diplomatic supporter and a permanent member of the UN Security Council, can stop the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan where as many as 400,000 people have been killed since 2003 and more than 3 million others may face a […]

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The kidnapping of military personnel

April 5th, 2007 by Roger Darlington

Naturally we are all delighted at the release by the Iranians of the 15 British naval personnel who were detained for 13 days. But many questions remain including: Were the British really in Iraqi or Iranian waters or, to put it another way, were they in waters that the Iranians think are theirs (see this […]

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Overseas aid falls

April 4th, 2007 by Roger Darlington

On the homepage of my web site, you will see the banner of the “Make Poverty History” campaign and I featured the issue of overseas aid on this blog at the time of the 2005 Gleneagles summit which promised a dramatic increase in aid. This week, however, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) […]

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Blinking hell!

April 3rd, 2007 by Roger Darlington

A couple of days ago, I did a posting about how I might have become a Labour Member of Parliament but instead Austin Mitchell was chosen as the candidate for Grimsby. In researching that story, I came across Austin’s blog and I was stunned at the blinking text. Nobody – I mean nobody – does […]

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