Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

29 March 2018
I’ve just been reading the UK Labour Party’s Green Paper on International Development (out this week). ‘Green Papers’ are not about the colour (this one is actually red), but ‘…
28 March 2018
Why agency and privacy matter for refugee communities. Ahmed and the Internet Ahmed fled Daraa in Syria nearly two years ago. He registered as a refugee in Jordan, but the same…
28 March 2018
The Middle East is heating up again, in part due to President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The Trump administration has also incited upset with its…
27 March 2018
TNI today presents its Atlas of Utopias (click here to see the website), part of the Transformative Cities initiative, sharing 32 stories of radical transformation…
27 March 2018
Europe and Iran: The Nuclear Deal and Beyond by Cornelius Adebahr. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017. 186 pp, £105 hardcover 9781138201040 Reviewed by Anoush Ehteshami   The…
26 March 2018
Sometime this summer, residents of Cape Town, South Africa, are expecting ‘Day Zero’ – the day when almost all the taps in the city will run dry. On that day, its 4 million…
26 March 2018
Plastics in the world’s oceans are set to treble in the next ten years, according to a new UK government report. They are also contributing to a rubbish…
22 March 2018
We are often told that there is no place for politics in objective research. The scientific tradition has built rigorous methodologies to get rid of bias, and presents itself as…
22 March 2018
Populists’ aversion to institutional restraints extends to the economy, where they oppose obstacles placed in their way by autonomous regulatory agencies, independent central…
21 March 2018
The scandal that has erupted around Cambridge Analytica’s alleged harvesting of 50m Facebook profiles assembled from data provided by a UK-based academic and his company…