Revealed: how we're rebranding poor people as entrepreneurs

Mar 09, 2016 22:33 pm UTC| Insights & Views

The last several decades have seen a steady increase in the profile and celebration of entrepreneurship in the UK. It is associated with economic development, growth and making a positive contribution to the country. There...

Why are sports car manufacturers moving to Wales?

Mar 09, 2016 22:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business

Most British journalists with an interest in cars and the car industry live in and around London, where the majority of the sectors publishers are to be found. Yet vehicles are often pictured carving a dynamic arc...

Media giants need advertising scale in a world drowning in content

Mar 09, 2016 22:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business

The divide between editorial and commercial, church and state in publishing traditions, is now a millstone for the industry. That old-school separation used to mitigate in favour of strong, independent journalism. But...

Climate Change Series

Global food production threatens to overwhelm efforts to combat climate change

Mar 09, 2016 22:01 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Each year our terrestrial biosphere absorbs about a quarter of all the carbon dioxide emissions that humans produce. This a very good thing; it helps to moderate the warming produced by human activities such as burning...

Migrant Crisis Series

Outsourcing a humanitarian crisis to Turkey – is that the European thing to do?

Mar 09, 2016 14:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views

European countries plan to send thousands of refugees back to Turkey in a deal aimed at preventing people from trying to reach the EU by sea. In what is being described as a one in, one out deal, anyone washing up on...

More female traders can minimise market crashes – here's how

Mar 09, 2016 14:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business

While the scenes depicted in the film The Wolf of Wall Street might be extreme, they do reflect a truth: that the world of finance is overwhelmingly male. It is this male-dominant culture, fuelled by testosterone, that has...

Migrant Crisis Series

Calais bulldozers endanger effective refugee infrastructure

Mar 09, 2016 14:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views

The current plight of refugees in Europe is harrowing enough. Yet the French authorities are making the situation worse. They are dismantling the southern section of the Jungle refugee camp in Calais, laying the ground for...