Continental leaders are fond of using “Anglo-Saxon” as a synonym for “free-market.” The implication, of course, is that free markets are not only ruthless and cold-hearted, but foreign, too. In a word ...
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In an age when absolutely everything is turned into a race row, it was inevitable that the term “Anglo-Saxon” would be declared forboden. If hoop skirts, airports, and eating meat are racist, then the ...
LONDON — LikeMonsieur Jourdain in Molière's "Bourgeois Gentilhomme," who was surprised to discover he had been speaking prose all his life, I have been taken aback to find that I have been living in ...
The economic downturn in the West may give to China the opening they have been looking for: The meltdown in financial markets hasn't simply damaged the American economy. It also has tarnished the U.S.
“The credibility of the Anglo-Saxon model of transactions-oriented financial capitalism” has been severely shaken by the great credit crunch of 2007, writes Martin Wolf, the well-regarded economics ...
Eight hundred years ago next month, English noblemen forced King John to sign the Magna Carta. It’s still having amazing effects on the world today. The Magna Carta helped usher in government with a ...
You hear the term everywhere these days in politics, pop music, business, even race relations. Anglo-Saxon. With the advent of the Human Genome Project, we now know a bit more about who the ...
Long before it became the top exporter of brooding BBC actors or steamed puddings, the United Kingdom was simply a cold, rocky island off the coast of Europe. It wasn’t until the arrival of ...
Continental leaders are fond of using “Anglo-Saxon” as a synonym for “free-market.” The implication, of course, is that free markets are not only ruthless and cold-hearted, but foreign, too. In a word ...