Rear Vision puts contemporary events in their historical context, answering the question, ‘How did it come to this?’
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Sunday 5 Feb 2017
The partitioning of Cyprus in 1974 remains a seemingly intractable dispute between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
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Sunday 29 Jan 2017
Is America entering a second gilded age?
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Sunday 22 Jan 2017
Many of us are now familiar with the queues at airport screening stations, the response to the hijackings and bombings that remain a challenge to aviation security.
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Sunday 15 Jan 2017
The story and ethical dilemmas of clinical trials.
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Sunday 8 Jan 2017
Antibiotics were for decades considered miracle drugs but genetic mutation has led to the rise of so-called ‘superbugs’.
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Sunday 1 Jan 2017
With stable democratic government, a well developed health system and a highly educated population, Costa Rica is the happiest nation on earth.
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Sunday 25 Dec 2016
A hundred years ago Britain and France signed a secret deal carving up the Middle East.
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Sunday 18 Dec 2016
For many would-be migrants, Australia was far away, expensive to get to and there were more attractive destinations, notably North America.
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Sunday 11 Dec 2016
The Affordable Care Act or ObamaCare aimed to reform the American health insurance industry and to finally provide health coverage for the millions of Americans who had none. So how successful has it been?
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Sunday 4 Dec 2016
Hundreds of thousands of protesters have flooded the streets of Seoul and other cities in South Korea on recent weekends, calling for the resignation of President Park Geun-Hye.
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Sunday 27 Nov 2016
Renewable energy is clean, cheap and it’s never going to run out but when the wind stops blowing and the sun goes down, there is no power.
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Sunday 20 Nov 2016
Backed by the UN Human Right's Committee, many in Ireland are demanding abortion law reform.
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Sunday 13 Nov 2016
The Taliban now control more territory in Afghanistan than at any time since 2001.
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Sunday 6 Nov 2016
Why did Greenland opt out of the EU and what are the implications for Brexit?
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