Brexit and migration: our new research highlights fact-free news coverage
Mar 04, 2019 13:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Immigration anxieties played a significant role in British peoples decision in June 2016 to vote to leave the EU. This has fuelled a debate over the quality of media reporting on migration issues. In order to get a...
Why banning controversial voices from universities is bad practice
Mar 04, 2019 13:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Two years ago the University of Cape Town (UCT) disinvited Flemming Rose from giving its annual T.B. Davie Academic Freedom Lecture. Rose is the cultural editor of the Danish publication, Jyllands-Posten that depicted the...
National security is too important to be abandoned to the politics of fear
Mar 04, 2019 12:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
This is part of a major series called Advancing Australia, in which leading academics examine the key issues facing Australia in the lead-up to the 2019 federal election and beyond. Read the other pieces in the series...
Mar 04, 2019 12:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics Business
After months of debate, the Australian Securities Exchange last week dumped a proposal to include reference to a social licence to operate in its updated Corporate Governance Guidelines. It was wrong to do so. The...
Protesters in Algeria use nonviolence to seek real political change
Mar 04, 2019 12:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
On February 10, 2019, Algerias state news agency announced that the countrys president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, would seek a fifth term in the upcoming elections, to be held on April 18. While there had been little public...
Solving the 'population problem' through policy
Mar 01, 2019 15:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
This is part of a major series called Advancing Australia, in which leading academics examine key issues facing Australia in the lead-up to the 2019 federal election and beyond. Read the other pieces in the series...
Brexit uncertainty has hurt UK economy – extending Article 50 could hurt it even more
Mar 01, 2019 14:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics Economy
Three years on from its vote on EU membership and the UK still has little idea what its future relationship with the EU might turn out to be. Under pressure from europhile members of her cabinet, Theresa May has finally...
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
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight