Domestic work in the South The Help, updated Maids are no longer servants UNDER segregation, black women were so rigidly excluded from good jobs that 60% of those who were employed in 1940 worked as maids. With so few other choices, their wages were...
Bageho The great game To improve his grasp of Anglo-Indian relations, David Cameron should watch more cricket IT IS in the matter of patience, wrote Lord Harris, an early England cricket captain and later ruler of the British empire's favourite game,...
Governing partnerships Electing the boss Deloitte prepares to vote for a new CEO EVER since the inception of the corporation, the principal-agent problem has bedevilled shareholders. The partnership structure that prevails at consulting, accounting a...
Longevity risk My money or your life New financial instruments may help to make pension schemes safer OVER the past 50 years, every forecast of how long people will live has fallen short. Despite fears that obesity and global warming would reverse th...
Serbia's foreign policy Divided loyalties Serbia is torn between its old ally, Russia, and the European Union A NICE summing-up of Serbia's foreign-policy dilemmas was shown in a recent drawing by Corax, the country's leading political cartoonist. Al...
Music and shopping Beware of Beethoven What you hear affects what you buy online EVER since Muzak started serenading patrons of hotels and restaurants in the 1930s, piped-in music has been part of the consumer experience. Without the throb of a synth...
Business this week The eurozone economy recorded zero growth in the second quarter. It had been expected to grow, if barely, but was dragged down by worse than expected GDP data from Germany and France. Germany's economy contracted by 0.2% as its exp...
The foreign-exchange market Fixed rates The money-spinners await their fate A CITY worker looking for a quiet place to nap nowadays could do worse than head for his bank's foreign-exchange (FX) trading floor. Once noisy with activity as gesticulating...
The British Army A changing force The British Army is taking on a radical new shape LIEUTENANT Christopher Hill is one of the last of his kind. The 25-year-old chose to join his unit, the fourth battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, because he...
Smart motorways Tailblazers How to make life easier for motorists without building new roads IDLING on a motorway for an hour or two has long been a part of any British summer holiday. But this year fractious drivers on the southern strip of the M25,...
