The world is American

A grump-inducing moment in the Guardian today: Responsible production has become the hallmark of a respectable brand. To the people of Idaho, Washington and Oregon, who recently endured intense heatwaves, the fact that it takes 2,700 litres of water to produce a single cotton T-shirt in a world where droughts are becoming more common probably […]

Give him credit

Mohsin Hamid is far from my favourite writer – not keen on his books or his writing, not keen on his shtick, and a conversation with him some years ago was memorably infuriating. But I thought this, in today’s FT, was quietly well-phrased: I am not a military expert. But I am familiar with what […]