Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

03 April 2020
Harry Sanders looks for international models to solve Scotland's growing demographic crisis. After years of discussion and debate, Brexit appeared to move one step further…
03 April 2020
*** A video of the webinar is available here or below *** Duncan Green introduces a forthcoming Global Policy Essay on COVID-19 as a 'critical juncture' during an open webinar to…
02 April 2020
Jordy Lee and Morgan Bazilian explain why supply chain disruptions from COVID 19 are indicative of larger problems within the mining industry. Without holding mining Environmental…
01 April 2020
Juergen Braunstein and Sachin Silva explore the need for financial risk models to account for pandemics. The Dow Jones industrial average recorded its highest single-day…
31 March 2020
Kristin Bergtora Sandvik examines the politics of humanitarian wearables to understand more about how digitization is reshaping the nature and relations of aid. Utopian…
30 March 2020
Iwa Salami reports on countries relaxing cryptocurrency regulations in the wake of COVID-19 and what this may mean for the technology's future. Anyone holding bitcoin would have…
30 March 2020
Maddie Grounds explores calls for the automation of health services and what they may mean for the NHS.  Covid-19 is an unprecedented time in our history. The global pandemic…
27 March 2020
The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism 1860-1914 by Donald Sassoon. Allen Lane 2019. 753 pp, £30 hardcover 978-0-241-31516-3, £14.99 paperback 978-0-141-98655-5, £30…
26 March 2020
Xi Lin unpicks China's grassroots led efforts “to serve the governed” in response to COVID-19. A short video went viral in China over the past two days. A Chinese student…
25 March 2020
Nathan Alexander Sears wonders whether the explosion of state power in response to COVID-19 will abate or become a feature of our lives. The COVID-19 virus has now spread to 168…