Conflict behind the sand dunes takes a new turn

Mar 18, 2017 07:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

This is the eleventh article in our Contested Spaces series. These pieces look at the conflicting uses, expectations and norms that people bring to public spaces, the clashes that result and how we can resolve...

Why South Africa’s Constitution is under attack

Mar 18, 2017 07:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

South Africas Constitution, greatly lauded around the world and the product of Nelson Mandelas democratic transition of the mid-1990s, is under attack. Its being blamed in some quarters for the slow pace of socio-economic...

How entrepreneurship can bring people off benefits – if they're given a chance

Mar 18, 2017 07:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

The lack of a real economic recovery and austerity since the 2008 financial crisis continues to make life difficult for ordinary people. Its part of the reason that public attitudes toward benefit recipients is...

Down but not out: diagnosing UKIP's biggest problems

Mar 18, 2017 06:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

UKIP seems to have lurched from crisis to crisis since achieving its founding ambition to take the UK out of the European Union. However, UKIP still has noteworthy support. It might be down, but it certainly isnt...

Space Science Series

Astronomers to peer into a black hole for the first time with new Event Horizon Telescope

Mar 18, 2017 06:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Science

Ever since first mentioned by Jon Michell in a letter to the Royal Society in 1783, black holes have captured the imagination of scientists, writers, filmmakers and other artists. Perhaps part of the allure is that these...

Asimov's laws of robotics aren't the moral guidelines they appear to be

Mar 18, 2017 06:52 am UTC| Technology Law Insights & Views

Seventy-five years ago, the celebrated science fiction writer Isaac Asimov published a short story called Runaround. Set on Mercury, it features a sophisticated robot nicknamed Speedy that has been ordered to gather some...

George Osborne at the Evening Standard: the latest through a long-revolving door

Mar 18, 2017 06:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

In announcing the former chancellor, George Osborne, as its new editor, the London Evening Standard continues a strong tradition of political elites having easy access to employment within the media elite. They sometimes...