The future of journalism is being built today – what you need to know
Mar 03, 2016 14:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Journalism is in an existential crisis: revenue to news organisations has fallen off a cliff over the past two decades and no clear business model is emerging to sustain news in the digital era. No model is proving to...
India has never had a single dominant nationalism – and it won't any time soon
Mar 03, 2016 14:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Ever since Narendra Modis Bharatiya Janata Party came to power, plenty of ink and pixels have been spent trying to explain the ascendancy of Hindu nationalism in India. But while the BJPs concept of Hindutva has sparked...
Why both sides are wrong in the counter-extremism debate
Mar 03, 2016 13:52 pm UTC| Insights & Views
Recently published evidence submitted to the parliamentary inquiry into extremism and the governments Prevent strategy sheds light on the current debates around counter-extremism in Britain and its clear from reading the...
Oil rigs are built to withstand decades at sea – taking them apart is as tough as they are
Mar 03, 2016 13:31 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
More than 40 years since oil first flowed from the Forties oil field, many North Sea fields are coming to the end of their productive lives. This means that platforms must be decommissioned and dismantled, the wells...
How far should we go when depicting violence?
Mar 03, 2016 13:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views
London audiences have been horrified by the violence shown on stage in the National Theatres production of Sarah Kanes play Cleansed. The Nationals own website rather euphemistically describes the production as...
Mar 03, 2016 08:59 am UTC| Insights & Views
The stage is now set for the British people to vote on whether they want to remain in the European Union or to leave. Campaigners backing a Brexit would like to pretend that freedom from the meddling union is just a ballot...
Negative rates series: sticky deposit rates, pain for banks
Mar 03, 2016 08:50 am UTC| Insights & Views
Negative rates has come to extreme scrutiny both from academics and investors, and now they are slowly being considered as more risky than benefits they provide. Following the path of smaller economies like Sweden,...
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’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects