Low pay and few contracts make freelance journalism a bleak prospect in 2024
Apr 19, 2024 06:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Over the past two decades in the news industry, weve witnessed shrinking newsrooms, mass redundancies and the steady decline of regional news on a global scale. With fewer opportunities for steady employment in this...
‘We have thousands of Modis’: the secret behind the BJP’s enduring success in India
Apr 19, 2024 06:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Since 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modis popularity has grown exponentially and so has the formidable organisational machine of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). These two factors will be key to delivering the BJP...
Why the government’s haste in changing the health system could come back to haunt it
Apr 19, 2024 06:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Since coming into power, the coalition government has adopted a simple but shrewd see-how-fast-we-can-move political strategy. However, in the health sector this need for speed entails policy risks that could come back...
Apr 19, 2024 06:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Politics
What comes to mind when you read the slogan I love Canadian Oil and Gas? Energy independence? Royalties for government coffers? Good jobs for Canadian workers? Canadas oil and gas sector is in the throes of profound...
Will global oil supply be at risk if Iran and Israel pull the Middle East into war?
Apr 18, 2024 06:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Tensions in the Middle East have escalated following Irans weekend missile and drone attacks on Israel, heightening concerns of a wider conflict. As with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, further conflict has the...
Gym hygiene guide: the dangerous bacteria that lurk in dirty fitness equipment and clothes
Apr 18, 2024 06:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
A friend of mine, on a recent trip to the gym, declined to use the machine for drying his trunks that gym equivalent of a salad spinner which removes excess water from your swimming costume. His reason? The amount of...
Apr 18, 2024 06:25 am UTC| Insights & Views
Recent guidance issued by the education secretary, Gillian Keegan, to the Office for Students reveals conflicting priorities in government and pours fuel on fires burning in an already troubled higher education...
‘We have thousands of Modis’: the secret behind the BJP’s enduring success in India