Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

02 November 2017
The new estimates on modern slavery hide incontrovertible biases within them, but their weight will be used to justify the actions of ‘white saviours’ for years to…
01 November 2017
Branko Milanovic explores the link between mass wars and inequality.  It has  become somewhat of a truism to hold that big mass mobilization cause income inequality to…
01 November 2017
Avril Keating explores research on what young Britons really think about Brexit. In the immediate aftermath of the EU referendum, much was made of how devastated young people were…
31 October 2017
Humans will work increasingly closely with machines, and we need to prepare people for that, write Terence Tse, Mark Esposito and Danny Goh. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been…
31 October 2017
For the first time, a paradise in danger will host the UN climate talks. Can Fiji’s presidency bring about the desperately needed global partnerships for island nations? The…
30 October 2017
Nations Torn Asunder: The Challenge of Civil War by Bill Kissane. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 285 pp., £18.99 hardcover 978-0-19-960287-2 This book deals with the…
30 October 2017
C.J. Polychroniou looks back at the October Revolution and its ramifications. Exactly one hundred years ago today, in the evening of October 25, 1917, the Winter Palace in…
27 October 2017
This is the second part of a wide-ranging interview with world-renowned public intellectuals Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin. C.J. Polychroniou: Noam, racism, inequality, mass…
27 October 2017
Nina Hall  asks what the New Zealand election can tell us about global political shifts?  Yesterday New Zealand’s new government was sworn into office. At its helm…
26 October 2017
Konstantinos Efstathiou explores the prize winner's contributions. Martin Sandbu in the FT lists some of Thaler’s seminal contributions to behavioural economics, which…