Post-truth leaders are all about their followers

Nov 25, 2016 20:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

We have been told we now live in a post-truth era. The author and academic Ralph Keyes has described it as a time when we do not have just lies and truths, but also statements that may not be true but we consider too...

UK Q3 GDP shows high resilience post-Brexit, Q4 could see positive surprise

Nov 25, 2016 11:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

The second reading of UK Q3 GDP matched original estimates and came in to show a growth of 0.5 percent during third quarter of 2016. It was the fifteenth consecutive quarter of positive growth since Q1 2013. On an...

Tall, pale and handsome: why more Asian men are using skin-whitening products

Nov 25, 2016 10:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

Jose, 19, is a college student in Puerto Princesa City, Philippines. On a regular school day, after he wakes up, he takes a shower, scrubbing his body using soap made of papaya (Carica papaya), a fruit thats said to...

Briferendum Aftermath Series

The weaker pound is a mixed bag for UK PLC as rivals move to adapt

Nov 25, 2016 09:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

The value of the pound plummeted after the Brexit referendum. From close to US$1.50 before the vote to leave the European Union, sterling has now found a new level close to US$1.20. This has been greeted as a welcome boost...

The seeds of the alt-right, America's emergent right-wing populist movement

Nov 25, 2016 09:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

In recent months, far-right activists which some have labeled the alt-right have gone from being an obscure, largely online subculture to a player at the very center of American politics. Long relegated to the...

India’s cash crunch situation to deter GDP growth, informal sector likely to be worst hit

Nov 25, 2016 09:16 am UTC| Commentary Economy Insights & Views

The cash crunch situation, owing to the recently announced demonetization scheme, is throttling the Indian economy and is likely to have a downside impact on the countrys gross domestic product (GDP in the last quarter of...

Race to the bottom on company tax cuts won't stop tax avoidance

Nov 25, 2016 01:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

US President-elect Donald Trump made an election promise to cut the US federal corporate tax rate from the current 35% to 15%. A somewhat more modest proposal is under way in Australia. The plan outlined in the 2016-17...