Bare cupboards and nobody to help buy food: the forgotten welfare gap in older age
Oct 08, 2017 03:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Welfare reform and austerity in the UK has led to reductions in public spending on services that support older people. Age UK has highlighted how nearly one million older people have unmet social care needs. This is of...
Why people stay in disaster-prone cities
Oct 08, 2017 02:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The 2017 hurricane season has brought unprecedented destruction to the Caribbean and southern United States. As millions of people around the world have watched these events unfold from afar, no doubt some have found...
How Blade Runner 2049 prepares us to welcome robots for real
Oct 08, 2017 02:45 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Entertainment
The idea of dangerous, inhumane artificial intelligence taking over the world is familiar to many of us, thanks to cautionary tales such as the Matrix and Terminator franchises. But what about the more sympathetic...
Underpaid, overworked and drowning in debt: you wonder why young people are voting again?
Oct 08, 2017 02:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The 2017 general election was highly unusual as far as the youth vote was concerned. The Labour party won 65% the lions share of the youth vote. The nearest comparisons are with 1964 and 1997. In both those years, Labour...
How a billion-dollar insurance industry protects Florida's risky real estate game – for now
Oct 08, 2017 02:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Yet, since 1886, the Sunshine State has been hit with almost twice as many hurricanes as the next two states, Texas and Louisiana. Currently, 2.4m people and 1.3m homes sit just 1.2 metres above the high tide line and sea...
The caste politics curse that India just can't shake off
Oct 08, 2017 02:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
India is still not able to do away with its caste politics as demonstrated by recent attacks on members of lower caste in south-western state of Gujarat during a festival. Yet Narendra Modis ruling Bhartiya Janata Party...
No chance of US gun control despite Las Vegas massacre; NZ left gains two seats after special votes
Oct 08, 2017 02:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
In the last decade, there have been many horrific gun crimes in the US, where at least 10 people have been murdered in the one incident. However, the National Rifle Association has successfully fought all efforts to impose...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects