Issue 12 – Gold

Tracy Chapman

Mondongo

Solar Power

Polar Travellers

Alternative Currencies

Madrid Fashion

Harvest In A Jar

Measures Of Success

A Brunello Christmas

Let’s Talk About The Rain

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Issue 12 - Gold
Jaoui plays the part of Agathe Villanova, a well-known feminist writer who, during an unseasonably rainy summer, travels to her native Lubéron in the south of France for a political…

Gold Rush

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Mark Britten is a quietly spoken man with a soft smile and friendly handshake. We meet in a fashionable vegetarian restaurant where he drinks chai tea and discusses the property…

The Measure Of Success

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The criteria for measuring success   There are expectations – family’s, society’s, our own – all of which change hugely over time. There are qualifications, the weight of which also…

The R Word

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  The obscene sums of money being lavished on football teams and players by Arabs and Russians have upset much of the press, and make this small-town club supporter despair.…

Banking On The Sun

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Issue 12 - Gold

As North Sea gas depletes and global-warming impacts snowball, the choices the world makes about energy economics are increasingly going to look like life-and-death decisions. The more we rely on Russian gas imports for electricity, the more homeowners are likely to have the lights turned off on them if their government displeases a resurgent Kremlin.