Why legacy media brands still matter in the UK’s ‘social media’ election

Jun 20, 2024 05:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

For decades, the front pages of newspapers have documented iconic campaign moments. Now, many think that the internet (particularly social media platforms) is where an election is won or lost. Some have even dubbed this...

Royal Mail takeover has benefits but poses risk to those reliant on UK’s national postal service

Jun 20, 2024 05:37 am UTC| Insights & Views

Selling a British institution to a foreign billionaire is a big deal. In the case of Royal Mail, that deal is not yet done, but the companys board has agreed to the move in principle. The 508-year-old postal service,...

G7 overcomes internal wrangling and ‘irrelevance’ barbs to strike US$50 deal to support Ukraine

Jun 20, 2024 05:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

In the 26 months since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the west has been riven with disagreement about how much and what support it will provide for Volodymyr Zelenskys government. There are two main reasons for...

Mother City: a tough, passionate film about the battle for affordable housing in Cape Town

Jun 20, 2024 05:36 am UTC| Insights & Views

A third of the way into Mother City theres a scene that characterises this tough, passionate film about Cape Town and its paradoxes of beauty and hardship, wealth and poverty, and the way it excludes the working...

South Africa’s unity government: 4 crucial factors for it to work

Jun 20, 2024 05:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

Governments of national unity built on power-sharing arrangements are common in Africa and elsewhere in the world. Now South Africa also has a unity government, following the 2024 general election in which no party won a...

Digital public archaeology: Excavating data from digs done decades ago and connecting with today’s communities

Jun 20, 2024 05:34 am UTC| Insights & Views

The ancestors of Alaska Native people began using local copper sources to craft intricate tools roughly 1,000 years ago. Over one-third of all copper objects archaeologists have found in this region were excavated at a...

Decades of politicians toying with A-levels and GCSEs have left students a confusing and unfair system

Jun 20, 2024 05:33 am UTC| Insights & Views

In 2023, Rishi Sunak outlined a proposed change to the education system in England: scrapping the current A-level system and introducing the Advanced British Standard. This would see students study more subjects after 16...