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...
Backpacker tax to be 19% but departure tax will rise $5 in compromise package
Sep 27, 2016 17:33 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The government will impose a A$5 increase in the departure tax, to A$60, and claw back more superannuation from holiday makers departing Australia to pay for a A$350 million compromise on the controversial backpacker...
The robots are polarising how we consume news – and that's how we like it
Sep 27, 2016 17:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
An article recently published in the American Journal of Political Science claims to have found proof that the internet is fuelling polarisation. The article uses data from 2004 to 2008 to show those with better internet...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects