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I've been watching Daughters of Destiny, a four-part documentary about the Shanti Bhavan school in India’s Tamil Nadu which was founded by Abraham George, an Indian business man who made his $zillions in the USA.  I did this with the sustainable development...

As you all surely know, EASE is a project which is open to up to 60 SEEd members to join and contribute to.   SEEd has run one launch event in London "with 18 organisations participating and another 17 interested in...

Last week a VW engineer, James Liang, was sentenced to 40 months in jail and given a $200,000 fine.  The Detroit judge said that Mr. Liang and other VW executives and employees were responsible for a “massive and stunning fraud” that...

A few final thoughts from my trip to Germany: The eastern part of Germany is full of wind farms, fine railway stations (Go to Leipzig!), and a lot of new roofs, but it feels empty Germany’s social divisions have become...

The last time I flew out of Berlin’s Tegel airport, I said “never again”, as its squalid facilities would put even the USA to shame.   But here I am, 10 years later, with another delayed flight (I blamed the...

Sitting in a (distinctly non-Anglo) Saxon café with a glass of black pilsner in my hand, on a terrace overlooking the Elbe as it made its way through Dresden, I could not help but enjoy the discomfort of endless groups...

I said in a recent post that it seemed but short steps from saying that German car-makers cheat, to saying that German business cheats, and that Germany cheats.  In other words, that Germany risks letting its criminal car companies represent...

We visited another fine museum on our trip.  Eschewing the sculpture, china, and old masters available in Dresden's partially-restored splendour, we went to the suburbs and visited the Bundeswehr's Museum of Military History.  This was not the eccentric choice it...

As I sat in a splendid and rather Rococo coffee house in old Weimar – which cannot have seen better days any time lately – I was struck by the range of turmoil that this city has seen over the...

Eating quietly in a restaurant in Erfurt's Fischmarkt, our peace was disturbed by the arrival of 29 assorted Swedes who variously shuffled and stumbled their way into the building.  They were accompanied by a be-blazered, didactic-type who, once latecomers had...