Peter Coy | Businessweek | 30 December 2011 On Merkel's quest for a euro solution, not a quick fix. "The question is whether, by the time she has perfected the blueprints for the high-class renovation of Europe she and her supporters crave, the building will have burned down" Comments George Packer | Foreign Affairs | 1 November 2011 US in decline. "All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress." Surface of life goes on improving, but deep structures, institutions, processes have decayed. Elites have lost their moral compass (Free reg reqd) Comments Philip Ross | IEEE Spectrum | 29 November 2011 There used to be people who operated lifts for us; now we just have buttons to press. Every train used to have engineers in the cabin; many now are automated. So what about planes? They can already land unassisted. Why keep pilots? Comments James Vernon | Times Higher Education | 1 December 2011 Higher education used to be regarded in Britain as a public good. Now it's been rebranded as a private investment. Which means an escalation of fees, a build-up student debt, and the casualisation of academic labour. Who benefits? Comments Paul Mason | BBC | 30 November 2011 Chancellor's autumn statement laid bare some devastating truths. Economic forecasts have been torn to shreds and, like America, we have an impoverished middle class whose spending power cannot survive a slump in house prices Comments Mark Crick | Independent | 25 November 2011 Imagining how Virginia Woolf, Geoffrey Chaucer and Raymond Chandler would have fared as food writers. From Lamb with Dill Sauce à la Raymond Chandler: "I took hold of the joint. It felt cold and damp, like a coroner's handshake" Comments | 
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