Vogue's attack on style bloggers shows how much the newcomers have the fashion mags rattled

Oct 03, 2016 07:39 am UTC| Insights & Views

For years, style bibles such as Vogue and Elle have found their exclusivity undermined by bloggers, who with huge numbers of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram followers have won over the designer brands that would normally...

RBA likely to keep interest rate unchanged, wait until Q3 inflation figures

Oct 03, 2016 07:37 am UTC| Economy Central Banks Insights & Views

The Reserve Bank of Australia is due to release its monetary policy statement on Tuesday 4 October at 03:30 GMT, and it is widely expected to leave its official cash rate (OCR) at its record low of 1.50 percent, after...

Responding to student protests: should the law be a tool of justice or violence?

Sep 30, 2016 13:16 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law

What is needed to enable South Africas universities to proceed with the academic year? The answer, according to some, is to deploy private security companies on campuses. Several of those who support such interventions...

FxWirePro: Copper shrugs off safe haven sentiment - Stay short Dec’16 LME copper

Sep 30, 2016 13:15 pm UTC| Insights & Views

The recent macro-driven rally in base metals has disrupted the bear market, but we still foresee downside risks to the copper prices from a fundamental perspective in the coming quarters. Cost deflation continues to...

Police are operating as a paramilitary force: criminologist reports from Charlotte, North Carolina

Sep 30, 2016 13:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Life

After a summer during which the issue of police violence against black Americans has dominated the headlines, it was just another day, another shooting. On September 20, 43-year-old Keith Scott was shot dead by police in a...

Climate Change Series

What do sugar and climate change have in common? Misplaced scepticism of the science

Sep 30, 2016 12:41 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Why do we think that climate sceptics are irrational? A major reason is that almost none of them have any genuine expertise in climate science (most have no scientific expertise at all), yet theyre confident that they know...

Here's one judge who understands that the law needn't be an ass

Sep 30, 2016 12:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law

When Family Court judge, Mr Justice Peter Jackson, made his judgment in a recent case about the future of four children who were in foster care he deliberately wrote it so that, as he put it: the mother and the older...