Can Colombia's new peace agreement hold all parties to account?
Nov 26, 2016 03:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
After a first peace agreement was rejected in a plebiscite, the Colombian government has signed a revised agreement with the FARC, a radical left-wing guerrilla group that has fought against the state for five decades. It...
Could an end to corporate tax help Britain's Brexit-burdened finances?
Nov 26, 2016 02:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
For many of us small government liberals who thought that, however flawed the European project is, the UK was better off staying inside it, there was one Brexit argument that resonated. This was the promise that once it...
Jo Cox murder reminds us that terrorism comes in many forms
Nov 26, 2016 02:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The conviction of Thomas Mair for the murder of the British MP Jo Cox serves as a reminder that terrorism comes in many guises. Mair was tried for murder, rather than terrorism, but the judge in his case made it clear when...
Africa has an air pollution problem but lacks the data to tackle it
Nov 26, 2016 00:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently launched BreatheLife, a campaign to make people more aware about the fact that air pollution which it calls the invisible killer is a major health and climate...
It's Iceland vs Iceland as trademark row erupts between country and frozen supermarket chain
Nov 26, 2016 00:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Law
Under European trademark law it is possible to obtain wide-ranging protection for a single word such as Apple, Google or Gucci which gives the owner the exclusive right to use the mark in commercial contexts in the EU....
After Brexit, what does democracy mean?
Nov 26, 2016 00:00 am UTC| Insights & Views
Ever since the EU referendum, an increasingly poisonous debate has raged about the will of the people and how it should be delivered. Both Remainers and Brexiteers are scratching their heads at what is clearly a clash of...
Tony Blair is back – but is there space for him?
Nov 25, 2016 22:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Tony Blair is back. He started to pop up during the Brexit debate and has now revealed that he plans to set up a centrist think tank and to make more direct interventions. It seems Labours most successful prime minister...
Canadians are feeling increasingly powerless amid economic struggles and rising inequality
Another election, another round of Nigel Farage hype, with no lessons learned