Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

14 November 2018
A decade after the financial crash, an epic repeat is on course. Two reports by Swiss banks, published within a week of each other, offer further revealing evidence on the growth…
13 November 2018
Lessons for ensuring work really does pay. The visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights to the UK is crystallising an unease about the state of…
12 November 2018
Milli Lake explores how and to what extent the spotlight on sexual violence has restructured judicial priorities in eastern DR Congo and South Africa. Following a reported decline…
09 November 2018
Institutional Cosmopolitanism edited by Luis Cabrera. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 304 pp., £47.99 hardcover 978-0190905651, £45.59 Kindle edition  …
09 November 2018
Cara Stauß, a representative of the German state of Baden-Württemberg to the European Union, explores the role regions and cities can play addressing global challenges.  1.…
08 November 2018
Karen Yeung and Peter Mills argue that we need to start thinking now about what might be good and bad reasons to preselect certain characteristics of future people. ‘…
08 November 2018
Duncan Green explores the aid sector's enduring blind spot. I’ve spotted a recurring problem with the way the aid sector talks about fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS). …
07 November 2018
Higher education, although clearly not a government priority, is becoming a bargaining chip as the UK considers its future outside the EU. Anne Corbett examines the UK government’…
06 November 2018
Oliver Taherzadeh and Benedict Probst weigh in on eating less meat to address climate change. Here we go again. The “sceptical environmentalist”, Bjorn Lomborg, has returned to…
06 November 2018
This week, Lukas Schlogl and Andy Sumner up their special series on the future of economic development, work, and wages in developing countries. We draw some…