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Alain de Botton, in his book Status Anxiety , points out that in the 1820s the word ‘snob’ emerged from Oxbridge, where colleges often wrote ‘s.nob’, short for ‘sine nobilitate’ — without nobility. ‘In the word’s earliest days,’ he writes, ‘a snob was taken to mean…

Alain de Botton, in his book Status Anxiety , points out that in the 1820s the word ‘snob’ emerged from Oxbridge, where colleges often wrote ‘s.nob’, short for ‘sine nobilitate’ — without nobility. ‘In the word’s earliest days,’ he writes, ‘a snob was taken to mean…

Violence in Pakistan is down by three quarters in the last two years. The country is safer than at any point since George W. Bush launched his war on terror 15 years ago. In 2013 there were 2,789 killings in Karachi. In the first 11…

Violence in Pakistan is down by three quarters in the last two years. The country is safer than at any point since George W. Bush launched his war on terror 15 years ago. In 2013 there were 2,789 killings in Karachi. In the first 11…

Last year the Overseas Development Institute reviewed 165 studies into 56 cash transfer programs in 30 different countries to find out their true effectiveness. The findings showed that cash transfers had improved school attendance and reduced child labour, boosted access to healthcare, improved and diversified…