How can the UK government meet its legal air pollution targets?
Dec 04, 2016 02:17 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Each year, air pollution contributes to around 25,000 deaths in the UK. Its a shocking statistic. By law, the government is obliged to cut high levels of harmful gases in the shortest possible time, yet in November the...
UN finally apologises for bringing cholera to Haiti – now it must match its words with funds
Dec 04, 2016 02:00 am UTC| Insights & Views
The United Nations Secretary-General has announced a new approach to cholera in Haiti. Six years after the organisation introduced cholera into the country, with at least 9,200 people dead and 800,000 people sickened since...
London's skyscrapers tell a rich story about the City's worship of finance
Dec 04, 2016 01:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
A new skyscraper is set to join the City of Londons world-famous collection of oddly-designed buildings with novelty names. With 73 storeys, the Trellis will rival the Shard in height, and overshadow its next-door...
Dec 04, 2016 01:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Theres a widespread belief that actually existing democracies are in the grip of a fast-paced world dominated by breaking news and all things instant. The following contribution sets out to question this belief. It takes...
Pinchgut's Theodora brings the irrational power of love to uncertain times
Dec 04, 2016 01:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Art has an ability to conflate the past, the present and the future; it does not follow the strictures of linear history. Pinchgut Operas Theodora, a George Handel oratorio of 1750, was the most contemporary creative work...
Will Italy's referendum trigger the next crisis?
Dec 04, 2016 01:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
2016 has been a year of political surprises. June gave us Brexit, November US-President elect Donald Trump and December might give us a government crisis in Italy. On December 4, Italians go to the polls to approve or...
Why is China so upset about Trump's Taiwan call – and could it lead to war?
Dec 04, 2016 01:20 am UTC| Insights & Views
The fact that Donald Trump is the first US president to call his Taiwanese counterpart in nearly four decades, seriously upsetting China in the process, might come as a shock when you think that Taiwan is the worlds 22nd...
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’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects