UK election 2019: conspiracy or cock-up? The digital dirty tricks marring this campaign

Dec 01, 2019 03:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

How many times, when a media SNAFU makes the headlines, have you heard the question asked: Is this conspiracy or cock-up?. Just look at the social media furore about the BBC using archive footage of Boris Johnson at the...

Our place in the universe will change dramatically in the next 50 years – here's how

Dec 01, 2019 03:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Science

In 1900, so the story goes, prominent physicist Lord Kelvin addressed the British Association for the Advancement of Science with these words: There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. How wrong he was. The...

How Manchester City's owners became the titans of a global sports-entertainment complex

Dec 01, 2019 03:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Sports Entertainment

US private equity firm Silver Lake acquiring a stake in the City Football Group (CFG), owners of English Premier League football team Manchester City, is a stunning development. Based in California, the investor has taken...

UK election 2019: the parties' competing visions for Britain's place in the world

Dec 01, 2019 03:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

Unusually for a UK election campaign, a key issue of foreign policy is central to the debate. Although previous elections have followed major foreign policy controversies in 1959 following the Suez invasion, 1983 after...

Accessing health care is challenging for Deaf people – but the best solution isn't 'one-size-fits-all'

Dec 01, 2019 03:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

For many of us, a visit to the doctors office can be wrought with anxiety. A persistent cough that wont go away or an ailment we hope is nothing serious can make GP visits emotionally difficult. Now imagine that you cant...

Future of Coal Series

The five corrupt pillars of climate change denial

Dec 01, 2019 03:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Business

The fossil fuel industry, political lobbyists, media moguls and individuals have spent the past 30 years sowing doubt about the reality of climate change - where none exists. The latest estimate is that the worlds five...

Emerging Market Crisis Series

Poverty: what low-income countries need is not more economic growth, it’s less shrinking

Dec 01, 2019 03:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy

It is widely accepted that countries are poor because their economies dont manage to grow sufficiently. But, perhaps surprisingly, the ability to create growth is not what most poor countries are lacking. In fact, all...