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Lord Macartney, Embassy to China (1793)

Of crisis and opportunity

The picture shows Lord Macartney, Embassy to China (1793), a folio taken from “A study of History” by Arnold Toynbee and available from the Wikimedia Commons. This line, taken from a People’s Daily article with the headline “Let reform pull … Continue reading →

Working like clockwork; image taken from the Wikimedia Commons

Bureaucracy and paperwork

19 Apr ’09

As I was weeding through my administration of the last 7 years – I’m moving about, so I wanted to chuck a lot of old paperwork out – it struck me that life in one country doesn’t leave nearly as … Continue reading →