Brexit: why uncertainty is bad for economies
Sep 27, 2016 18:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The predicted economic blow of a Brexit vote was core to the Remain campaign before Britains referendum on EU membership. Since the vote, the lack of an Armageddon has been held up as an example of these fears being...
Kashmir flare-up puts India under new pressure to deal with Pakistan
Sep 27, 2016 18:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views
In the worst attack against the Indian army in years, militants in Kashmir recently killed 18 soldiers in a predawn raid on an army camp in the town of Uri. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government are under...
Brexit threatens Britain's reputation as an agenda-setter for foreign aid
Sep 27, 2016 17:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The world is facing a host of complex challenges, from climate change to migration to the spread of infectious diseases. No nation acting alone can hope to solve them. Britain has been serious about tackling these...
To get people out of poverty, the right sectors need help hiring
Sep 27, 2016 17:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Employment policy has conventionally focused on getting people into work as a means of addressing poverty. But being in employment does not guarantee poverty reduction: since 2011 more than half of the people in poverty in...
Snap-happy tourists can play a part in preserving threatened heritage for the future
Sep 27, 2016 17:49 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Our present is intrinsically bound up with our past, our sense of identity shaped and moulded by the cultural legacies of our forebears. Thats why organisations such as UNESCO exist to protect the cultural heritage of the...
Dear Mr Trump: here's how you build a wall
Sep 27, 2016 17:40 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Dear Mr Trump, As soon as you are inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States of America, I would dearly like to build for you and the American people the wall along the Mexican border. It will be, as you...
Trump melts down in his first debate with Clinton – will the voters now punish him?
Sep 27, 2016 17:36 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The big question going into the first debate of the presidential election was whether Donald Trump would decide to tone down the cartoonish, belligerent alpha male shtick that has carried him this far. The debate gave him...
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