Martin Vander Weyer Martin Vander Weyer

Hurricane Harvey is bigger news than the bankers at Jackson Hole

<p class="p1">Plus, why is the French health system so much better than Britain’s?</p>

issue 02 September 2017

In Houston last November I spent an evening at the city’s industrial-scale food bank, where I heard a presentation on the Houstonian tradition of offering hospitality to refugees, including 200,000 displaced from New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina. We were also given some positive spin on the strength of co-operation, in time of crisis, between the region’s major oil companies and its state and city governments.

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