Ehsan Masood

Ehsan Masood is editor of @ResFortnight. His latest book, The Great Invention: The Story of GDP and the Making and Unmaking of the Modern World is published this week in the US by Pegasus.

The upside of down

Africa is the continent whose peoples contribute the least to global warming but whose people are predicted to suffer the most from its effects. The injustice inherent in this situation

By Ehsan Masood

/ 29 Nov 2006

Which way home? Diasporas and development

Atta-ur-Rahman is Pakistan's energetic minister for higher education, and one of the country's most decorated scientists. He is also a man in a tremendous hurry. Rahman

By Ehsan Masood

/ 15 Nov 2006

British Muslims: ends and beginnings

Language, George Orwell wrote in his famous 1949 essay "Politics and the English Language", has the capacity to corrupt thought. But then thoughts can also corrupt language. Take

By Ehsan Masood

/ 31 Oct 2006

Physics in revolution

The 2006 Nobel prize for physics went to two scientists, John C Mather and George F Smoot, who successfully detected the universe's birth-pangs. Their achievement builds on the

By Ehsan Masood

/ 17 Oct 2006

The cost of freedom in the digital age

In common with many IT users, I do not buy original printer cartridges. I prefer instead to exchange my empty printer cartridge for a recycled one at one of the

By Ehsan Masood

/ 2 Oct 2006

Pope Benedict XVI: science is the real target

At the University of Siena in Italy, the Pontignano conference on the future of Europe's universities on 15-17 September 2006 was in full flow when word began to

By Ehsan Masood

/ 18 Sep 2006

The global politics of cricket

In Lagaan, a Bollywood film set in British India, an experienced team of British soldiers challenge farmers from a village to a game of cricket. But this is to be

By Ehsan Masood

/ 4 Sep 2006

For all the tensions between Arabs, Jews, Christians, neo-conservatives and Muslims in recent weeks, many are united on one thing: increasing, and increasingly visceral distaste for the output from large

By Ehsan Masood

/ 21 Aug 2006

Millennium Development Goals: back to school

It is an annual ritual, and no less important for that. The publication of the United Nations's scorecard on efforts to tackle poverty in developing countries is designed

By Ehsan Masood

/ 1 Aug 2006

The aid business: phantoms and realities

It doesn't happen often. But I feel the nerves beginning to stretch when a piece of research in the field of technology and development makes national news. I

By Ehsan Masood

/ 17 Jul 2006

Muslim Britain: the end of identity politics?

In early June 2006 the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) elected a new leader to take over from its founding secretary-general, Iqbal Sacranie. But Bangladesh-born Muhammad Abdul Bari, an educationalist,

By Ehsan Masood

/ 2 Jul 2006

Israel and the bomb: dont ask, dont tell

A country in the southern hemisphere is secretly engaged in research development with the construction of nuclear weapons in mind. The White House knows, perhaps more than it wants to,

By Ehsan Masood

/ 12 Jun 2006