Climate Change Series

Bolivia's fast-melting glaciers are leaving behind lakes that could cause catastrophic floods

Oct 21, 2016 09:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Bolivias glaciers have shrunk by more than 40% in the past few decades. This puts further pressure on an already stressed water supply, while the meltwater lakes left behind risk collapsing in sudden and catastrophic...

Global Geopolitics Series

Special forces should be at the heart of Britain's military planning

Oct 21, 2016 09:52 am UTC| Insights & Views

What sort of military does the UK need to deal with a rapidly changing set of potential threats? Conventional military thinking still holds that the UK needs to retain what the Americans would describe as full-spectrum...

Global Geopolitics Series

How NatWest bank became a player in the new propaganda war between Russia and the West

Oct 20, 2016 12:36 pm UTC| Insights & Views

The recent decision of the National Westminster Bank to freeze the UK accounts of Russian international broadcaster RT sparked a furious row, with talk of Kremlin disinformation pitted against accusations of British...

Mexico's economic outlook remains cloudy, Peso under pressure

Oct 20, 2016 12:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

After expanding at a solid rate of +0.5 percent quarter-on-quarter in Q1, Mexican economy contracted -0.2 percent quarter-on-quarter in Q2. The close economic relations with the US that have developed under NAFTA have so...

Britain's great meritocracy gap – why businesses must widen their talent pool

Oct 20, 2016 12:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

Britains new prime minister has put meritocracy at the heart of her governments agenda. Its a noble goal. This idea of allowing those with the most talent to rise to the top of society and occupy the best jobs must surely...

Why sport is a spiritual experience – and failure can help

Oct 20, 2016 12:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views Sports

We all have heard it said that sport is like religion. The annual cycle of sporting events mimics the yearly sequence of rituals by which traditional religions transform profane time and space into sacred moments and...

Big Tobacco sees its future in cigarettes, not vaping

Oct 20, 2016 12:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business

In 2012, in the early days of the rise of e-cigarettes, Kingsley Wheaton, Director of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs at British American Tobacco, said Our core business is, and will remain in, tobacco. So have the...