Is the UK finally getting serious about industrial strategy?
Jan 25, 2017 00:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Economy
The new UK government under Prime Minister Theresa May has brought with it a welcome change of tone on industrial strategy. We have now heard more about what the government actually intends to do. A proposal has set out...
Into a bizarre future: why the liberal promise of true liberty is a lie
Jan 25, 2017 00:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. So wrote the 20th-century German philosopher, Theodor Adorno. He was referring to the kind of life which defenders of Western liberal capitalism have long claimed to be the ultimate...
India has been a post-truth society for years (and maybe the West has too)
Jan 24, 2017 08:53 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Major social change does not happen within the space of a year. Yet, to a large number of observers around the world, the post-truth phenomenon seemed to emerge from nowhere in 2016. Two key events of 2016 shaped our...
Jan 23, 2017 06:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
As the world struggles to come to terms with the potentially monumental geopolitical changes Donald Trumps election threatens to unleash, its easy to lose sight of the fate of the small fry. Few places epitomise whats at...
Trump v Mourinho: masters of media distraction
Jan 23, 2017 00:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Sports
Is Jose Mourinho, the Donald Trump of football? Or is Trump the special one of world politics? Both are masters of diversion, both believe that dark forces the FA, the FBI, the media are plotting against them. They see...
Obama's legacy is bittersweet – and its chance of survival hangs in the balance
Jan 22, 2017 23:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The grace. The elegance. The deftness of touch. The quick intelligence. The soaring rhetoric. The unlimited aspirations. The hope of a better life for all. Though Barack Obamas legacy is rather lesser than some might have...
The Trump era has begun. How can we make sense of it?
Jan 22, 2017 23:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Donald Trump is now the 45th president of the United States. The country he will oversee is, to him, a dark and troubled place. In his first speech as its president, he described a tragedy of mothers and children...