Daily Archives: September 2, 2011


> At the Second Quebec Conference in the middle ofSeptember 1944, President Roosevelt and the US Secretary of the Treasury HenryMorgenthau tried to persuade Winston Churchill and the British delegation on a radicalplan for post-war Germany. The militaristic, Prussian tradition would bedestroyed once and for all, ensuring that Germany could never again threatenthe peace in Europe and the world. Part of this would be achieved by […]

>A controversial plan for post-war Germany


> The ravages of HIV / AIDS have had a catastrophiceffect on life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa. Swaziland has the world’slowest life expectancy at 39.6 years according to the UN’sworld population report and is joined at the lower reaches of the table byMozambique, Zambia and Sierra Leone. But even Swaziland’s tragic figures aresignificantly higher than Manchester, Lancashire in the first half of the 19thcentury. Szreter and […]

>It really was tough up north



> For a shortbut significant period of time on 10 August 2011, Apple Inc. was theworld’s largest corporation by market capitalisation. Wresting the top spotfrom Exxon Mobil is no mean feat for a company that flirtedwith bankruptcy only 14 years ago. The ‘top spot’ in the global peckingorder has become increasingly volatile this century, with no less than 14changes in the last decade. Recently there have […]

>Clash of the corporate titans