Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

23 May 2017
C.J. Polychroniou argues that Syriza is a political case study that should provide much food for thought to all radical movements, organizations and parties. For the last several…
23 May 2017
Raghavendra Madhu underscores how performance poetry, the burgeoning global phenomenon, is voicing an array of global concerns and proving to be a valuable tool in human rights…
22 May 2017
Jehanzeb Khan and Annette Fisher argue that ‘Doing Development Differently’ is as much about the people and processes as it is about programme design and technical…
22 May 2017
The words we never thought they’d say have recently turned from a trickle into a mighty river. The very building block of any decent society, commitment to reduce inequality…
19 May 2017
We're living in a new era of proxy warfare, where multiple powers fund local proxies with disastrous consequences. We need to break the cycle. The end of the Cold War was one…
19 May 2017
Walter Quattrociocchi explores the growing fight back against fake news. The spread of false information has always been with us, but it is something we face every day in the…
18 May 2017
Donald Trump will probably go down in history as having pulled the biggest political con job in US electoral politics. With no coherent ideology but lies and false promises, he…
16 May 2017
Austin Schiano explores the link between human rights and renewable energy. 2016 was the year that, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF), renewable energy finally became a…
16 May 2017
Citizenship is a duty that transcends borders. Jennifer Allsopp reports for 50.50 from the first day of of the 2017 Nobel Women's Initiative conference. “…
15 May 2017
The UK-EU financial settlement risks becoming a toxic stumbling block in Brexit negotiations. But there are actually much more important issues to discuss. To diffuse the issue,…