Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

18 December 2017
The “Parenting for a Digital Future” blog has tried to capture the diversity of families’ experiences with the internet around the world by including reflections…
15 December 2017
In this post Mary Kaldor reviews Nathalie Tocci’s book: Framing the EU Global Strategy: A Stronger Europe in a Fragile World  Palgrave Studies in…
15 December 2017
Charlene Jennett and Anna L Cox explore the benifits of citizens' science projects.  On Christmas Day in 1900, the ornithologist Frank M Chapman proposed a new holiday…
13 December 2017
Post-Western World: How Emerging Powers are Remaking Global Order by Oliver Stuenkel. Cambridge and Malden: Polity 2016. 180 pp., £50 hardcover 9781509504565, £15.99…
12 December 2017
On 1 December I attended SOAS University for a screening of the film ‘The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire’, co-produced by film maker Michael…
12 December 2017
In the wake of the rise of nationalist sentiments in Western nations, Senni Salmi examines how Finland arrived at its inclusive narrative. The term nationalism is not in fashion.…
11 December 2017
Following his previous opinion piece (available here), Dave Anderson sketches the contours of a US peace treaty with North Korea. The North Korea crisis is the most critical…
08 December 2017
      First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak…
07 December 2017
Andrea Stroppa on the state of the ongoing struggle agaisnt fake news. Lawyers from top tech companies were recently asked about the role their firms played in the 2016 United…
07 December 2017
From gathering around the campfire sharing tales to binge watching the latest Netflix series, humans are, and have always been, inveterate producers and consumers of stories. But…