Jamie Oliver's big chance to persuade the world to take action against obesity

May 23, 2016 16:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Dear Jamie Oliver, You want to put pressure on world leaders to take action against obesity and undernourishment the world over. And you are absolutely right to highlight these problems to David Cameron ahead of your...

Decolonising universities isn't an easy process -- but it has to happen

May 23, 2016 16:35 pm UTC| Insights & Views

South African universities have become protest sites. Beginning in 2015 and continuing this year, students have organised against colonial symbols, fee structures, worker exploitation and sexual violence. The anger...

Mystery in northern Scotland that is baffling multiple sclerosis experts

May 23, 2016 16:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

The north of Scotland has long been an important part of our quest to understand what causes multiple sclerosis (MS). Though we have known about the regions high rate of the disease for some time, it moved centre stage...

Solar storms could solve longstanding paradox of how life on Earth arose

May 23, 2016 16:27 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science

It was only a matter of 700m years or so after Earth formed and its surface cooled and solidified that life began to flourish on Earth. All studies suggest that life requires water and we know from rocks on Earth that the...

Colombians displaced by conflict are moving home, but still living in fear

May 23, 2016 16:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

Colombia is finally close to signing a peace accord to formally end to its decades-long armed conflict, which has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of its citizens, led to the disappearance and kidnapping of tens...

Briferendum Series

Treasury Brexit report is overly negative – and simplifies reality

May 23, 2016 16:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views

Over 90 pages, the Treasurys latest report on the EU referendum attempts to identify the short-term economic effects of a Brexit vote. When the Treasury tweeted the publication late on the morning of May 23 it was billed a...

Hide your location on Twitter? We can still find you and that's not a bad thing in an emergency

May 23, 2016 12:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology

Of the millions of Twitter users, there are about 98% who want to hide their location. So they switch off the function that publicly displays the location of any tweet. There could be many reasons why people dont want...