Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

13 March 2018
Dan Lomas provides background to clandestine security services’ assassination attempts on foreign soil.  Whitehall sources had been claiming that the suspected…
13 March 2018
The worldview that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights promotes is the polar opposite of the one actually gaining traction today, writes Francesca Klug. She argues that…
12 March 2018
Michael Johnson gets us up to speed on President Trump's latest policy. President Donald Trump has signed an order for special tariffs of 25% on imports into the United States of…
12 March 2018
Nayef Al-Rodhan explores the evolving space security race.                               Space…
09 March 2018
Some of the most widely cited predictions of the economic effects of Brexit rely on flawed analysis, particularly of the performance of the UK after it joined the EEC, and on the…
08 March 2018
This guest post on the 'From Poverty to Power' blog by Nikki van der Gaag, Oxfam’s Director of Gender Justice and Women’s Rights. This International Women’s Day feels different to…
08 March 2018
Following the #MeToo revelations, journalist and creative writer Sian Norris let her imagination run wild to envision a global feminist revolution. This is her dispatch from a…
07 March 2018
Tracy Bhamra explores the impact of the late Trevor Baylis. Trevor Baylis, who has died aged 80, left his school in London at 15 without any qualifications. But he went on to…
07 March 2018
Mihai Chihaia analyses Russia’s current approach towards North Africa highlighting the main avenues of cooperation with the countries in the region. North Africa has long been an…
06 March 2018
In light of recent divestment announcements by insurers from coal, Lisa Benjamin examines emerging legal obligations for institutional investors in high-emitting industries such…