Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

14 June 2017
The reality is that after this election any UK government will be a weak one: no matter whether the cabinet is led by Theresa May or Jeremy Corbyn. There are opportunities here.…
14 June 2017
Nina Hall on the state of the world's oceans and what we can do about it. Three billion people rely on seafood as their primary source of protein, according to the Marine…
13 June 2017
What’s at stake: the concept of a Universal Basic Income (UBI), an unconditional transfer paid to each individual, was prominent earlier this year when Finland announced a…
12 June 2017
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the Marshall Plan speech given by US Secretary of State George Marshall on 5 June 1947. The speech outlined the principles of the Marshall…
12 June 2017
When international organizations face legitimacy problems, they need to address governance issues, conflicts of interest, and poor leadership. In one of Donald Trump’s…
08 June 2017
The Middle East is going through the biggest transformation since the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of modern nation states by colonial powers. Some…
07 June 2017
Nayef Al-Rodhan looks towards international solutions to the problem of fake news. “Post-truth” was selected the 2016 ‘word of the year’ by the Oxford…
07 June 2017
The discussion on how to protect countries from pandemics should also include strategies aimed at curbing potential ‘pandemics of fear’. Few events cause as much…
06 June 2017
Dani Rodrik explores the calls to compensate the losers of globalisation. It appears that a new consensus has taken hold these days among the world’s business and policy…
06 June 2017
Charlotte Heath-Kelly explores the complexity of reactions to terrorist attacks. Seven people were killed in the London Bridge terrorist attack on June 3, seemingly echoing the…