Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

14 January 2021
Caroline Tynan examines the wider ramifications of US policy towards Yemen’s Houthi-led government. After several months of deliberation, on Monday January 11th, the Trump…
13 January 2021
Through a case study of the Rohingya in Bangladesh, Ashfaq Zaman calls for more innovation to find long-term solutions for refugee populations settling in developing countries. In…
12 January 2021
Rahul Sur argues that love, in its non-romantic but compassionate sense, should be an ingredient in policy formulation as it has shown its relevance and effectiveness in diverse…
08 January 2021
Duncan Green with a realistic yet optimistic take on making change. I was asked to do an ‘inspirational 5 minutes’ at the end of our new-look LSE graduation ceremony just before…
07 January 2021
Tahir M. Nisar and Henry Agyei-Boapeah discuss how effectively low and middle-income (LMICs) can tackle the challenge of COVID-19 by designing and implementing AI and data science…
06 January 2021
Azer Babayev explores the role the international community can play in ensuring the current fragile peace lasts. The recent military flair up of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was…
06 January 2021
Refusal to allow a Hungarian official to enter Ukraine stoked political tensions which were already riding high. But what are the repercussions for Ukraine’s cooperation with the…
06 January 2021
Koldo Casla reflects on a year dominated by the pandemic and why we still can't be sure what its final outcomes may be. In March 2020, days after the World Health Organization…
05 January 2021
These institutions were designed with colonial principles in mind, and they remain largely colonial in character to this day. Most people assume that inequality between the global…
04 January 2021
UK print media coverage of immigration is noted for its hostility and divisiveness. From the cliché that migrants heap unsustainable pressure on public services, to the depiction…