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Russia's election Losing their grip Dec 5th 2011, 10:11 by A.O. | MOSCOW YESTERDAY'S parliamentary poll in Russia was always going to be more a referendum on Vladimir Putin and the ruling United Russia party than a real election. The genuine opposition was barred from taking part long before polling day; television, which remains the main source of news and views for..

The Norway attacks The psychotic killer Nov 30th 2011, 11:55 by C.M. | COPENHAGEN THAT a man responsible for killing 77 people in bombing and shooting attacks was insane may not sound like news. Yet yesterday's conclusion, by a pair of court-appointed psychiatrists, that Anders Behring Breivik suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and was in a psychotic state during hi..

Poland's appeal to Germany Sikorski: German inaction scarier than Germans in action Nov 29th 2011, 13:04 by E.L. POLAND'S foreign-policy course over the past five years has been marked by two features: caution, and improving relations with Germany. But in a remarkable speech in Berlin yesterday Radek Sikorski, Poland's foreign minister, threw caution aside and made a..

Facebook and privacy Broken promises Nov 29th 2011, 21:44 by M.G. | SAN FRANCISCO A FEW years ago, Facebook was forced to retreat from a new service called Beacon. It tracked what the social network’s users were doing elsewhere on the web—which caused a huge fuss because of the loss of personal privacy. At the time, Facebook promised to make strenuous efforts to ..

The French way of work Managers must shoulder some of the blame for France’s troubled relationship with work Nov 19th 2011 | from the print edition EVERY year, Sophie de Menthon, a French entrepreneur, holds an event called J’aime ma boîte (I love my firm) in Paris. The idea is to counter the notion that the French don’t like work. Employees are enticed to ma..

Economic crisis Europe’s rescue plan This week’s summit was supposed to put an end to the euro crisis. It hasn’t Oct 29th 2011 | from the print edition YOU can understand the self-congratulation. In the early hours of October 27th, after marathon talks, the leaders of the euro zone agreed on a “comprehensive package” to dispel the crisis that has been plagu..

France and Islam Fighting freedom with fire WHEN the French satirical weekly, Charlie Hebdo, reprinted controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet, Muhammad, five years ago, French political leaders were ambivalent. Jacques Chirac, then the president, called it a “manifest provocation”. “Anything that can wound the convictions of others should be avoided,” h..

Cleaning up Japan’s nuclear mess The twilight zone Its owner fears not just radiation leaking out of the Fukushima plant, but also bad news Nov 5th 2011 | IWAKI | from the print edition IT IS another world beyond the roadblocks stopping unauthorised traffic from entering the 20km (12.5-mile) exclusion zone around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. The few ..

A university degree no longer confers financial security Sep 3rd 2011 | from the print edition MILLIONS of school-leavers in the rich world are about to bid a tearful goodbye to their parents and start a new life at university. Some are inspired by a pure love of learning. But most also believe that spending three or four years at university—and accumulating huge debts in the process—will b..

Terrorism in Norway From bad to worse Jul 23rd 2011, 13:57 by C.M. | COPENHAGEN THE bomb that killed seven people near the central government complex in downtown Oslo on July 22nd was already a huge shock to normally tranquil Norway. But even that horror pales in comparison to what the country suffered just a few hours later, when a gunman shot at least 87 people dead on the tiny nearby island ..