Jan 10, 2016 03:36 am UTC| Insights & Views
In recent weeks weve been treated to some high profile cases of inappropriate workplace conduct: the Dutton and Briggs cases which I wrote about last week and more recently the highly misguided cricketer, Chris Gayle,...
Big boys DO cry: why Obama was right to shed tears over dead children
Jan 09, 2016 05:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Politicians crying in public always make the headlines and the tears shed recently by US president Barack Obama have triggered a new round of debate about whether it is acceptable for public figures particularly male...
US–Saudi relations and the search for leverage
Jan 09, 2016 05:04 am UTC| Insights & Views
The alliance between Saudi Arabia and the United States provides one of the foundations of American foreign policy in the Middle East. This week, tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia have been magnified by the Saudi...
GM foods: big biotech is quietly winning the war
Jan 08, 2016 14:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views
It must have been 1996 or 1997 when I first met someone from Monsanto. The anti-GM movement in the UK had by then already acquired some momentum and Monsanto was cast as the prime villain for seeking to import GM soya into...
Sex attacks row forces Merkel to defend her policies from racism
Jan 08, 2016 14:40 pm UTC| Insights & Views
It was New Years Eve 2015 in Cologne. Large groups of men roamed the streets and systematically robbed, sexually harassed and assaulted scores of German women. The women were insulted, robbed, groped and harassed...
FxWirePro: Both technicals and fundamentals propel USD/TRY H1 2016 forecasts to 3.25
Jan 08, 2016 12:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The main drivers will likely be disregard of the inflation targeting regime and high levels of foreign liabilities. Headline inflation remains remarkably high despite the collapse in oil prices, because real interest...
Jan 08, 2016 11:58 am UTC| Insights & Views
The gold has taken support at the baseline of descending triangle at around 1062.23 to spike all the way upto 1112.89 but from there it has not sustained that breach.Bulls could not take it forward as 21DMA has acted as a...
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
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects