Here's what architecture can teach us about building the Northern Powerhouse
Mar 25, 2016 01:45 am UTC| Insights & Views
George Osbornes cuts to disability benefits have been stopped in their tracks, and the chancellors grand scheme to reinvigorate the North of England now faces its own challenges. Osbornes vision for a Northern...
Four decades after coup, people power is driving change in Argentina
Mar 25, 2016 01:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The visit to Argentina by US president Barack Obama on the 40th anniversary of the coup in which the now-infamous military Junta seized power has opened up a lot of barely healed wounds. The families of more than 30,000...
Everything you need to know about mini nuclear reactors
Mar 25, 2016 01:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Nuclear power can be a touchy subject, one that seems to divide opinion. Many people believe it is unclean, controversial and costly and the 2011 Fukushima disaster showed the world just how unsafe nuclear can be; the...
We need to rethink hip hop's bad rap
Mar 25, 2016 01:07 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Like many people around the world, I was saddened to hear news of the death of legendary 90s hip-hop artist, Phife Dawg. I was sad not because I knew Phife Dawg (I didnt) nor because at 45 he was too young to leave us...
Hard evidence: how integrated are young EU migrants into the UK workforce?
Mar 25, 2016 00:59 am UTC| Insights & Views
Migration and the principle of free movement within the EU is one of the main issues in the debate over whether Britain should remain in the EU. Polls suggest that the public is very sympathetic to the idea that the UK...
The customer is rarely right, often self-obsessed and may be best ignored
Mar 25, 2016 00:56 am UTC| Insights & Views
Customer focus is an enduring and fundamental principle of business. The logic goes that success will follow if you identify and solve customer problems, use them to build new products or services, and create strong...
Forced academisation by proxy: when schools have little choice but to convert
Mar 25, 2016 00:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
All schools in England that remain under local authority control are now living with the threat of being forced to become academies. As the mother of a child who attends a school that chose to become an academy, rather...
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