To address climate change, lifestyles must change – but the government’s reluctance to help is holding us back: Without changes to people’s behaviour and lifestyles, it will be impossible for the UK to reach net zero emissions by 2050. But the government is failing to put in place the conditions that would enable this to …
Bolsonaro’s first-round election bounce back reminds us why populist leaders are so popular: Many populist politicians do better in elections than polling suggests they will. Antonio Scorza/Shutterstock The sitting Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro secured an unexpected 43% vote in the recent first round of the presidential election, close behind his opponent Luiz Inácio Lula da …
Disabled people are already cutting back on costs more than others – for many, the £150 cost of living payment won’t do much to help: NDAB Creativity / Shutterstock Even before the current cost of living crisis, disabled people were much more likely than non-disabled people to be in poverty and living on inadequate incomes. …
Will Keir Starmer lead Labour back into government? The view from the party conference in Liverpool: Keir Starmer, the next British prime minister? A cautiously optimistic mood prevails at this year’s Labour Party conference in Liverpool. Yet hope is tempered with fear, befitting a party that has contrived to lose eight of the last 11 …
Keir Starmer needs to tell a bolder story about Britain’s future to convince voters to back him: Leadership in any group, whether it’s a team, an organisation, a community or a country, always requires the skill and insight to tell what Marshall Ganz of Harvard University calls a “story of us”. A story of us …
Nyege Nyege music festival in Uganda is back on – but morality police are watching: GettyImages First staged in 2015, the globally touted Nyege Nyege Festival in Uganda is a four-day dance party and a major tourism drawcard that caters to lovers of electronic dance music. After a three-year break due to COVID-19, the 2022 …
17 strikes in 23 years: a unionist explains why Nigeria’s university lecturers won’t back down: A protester holds a placard as workers show solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images Lecturers at Nigeria’s public universities have been on strike 16 times since 1999. On 14 February …
Artemis 1: maiden flight of spacecraft set to take humans back to the Moon – here’s what needs to go right: Artemis-1 on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Centre NASA A launch window – the period during which a rocket must be launched to reach its destination – opens on August 29 for the …
Crimea: Ukraine uses new tactics to attempt to take back strategic territory from Russia: Russian president Vladimir Putin has reportedly replaced the commander of his Black Sea fleet just three days after an attack on the Russian Saki airbase in Crimea, as Ukraine’s military strategy shifts towards regaining territory in the south, and especially Crimea. …
Inflation: why it’s very unlikely to get back below 2% for years to come: Only going up. Oleg Golovnev Inflation in the UK and eurozone is still getting worse. UK prices rose a whopping 10.1% in July compared to a year earlier, while those in the eurozone went up 8.9% – breaking longstanding records in …
How England plans to cut back ‘low value’ degrees so it can reap more student loan repayments: 4 PM production/Shutterstock Rishi Sunak, one of the candidates to be the UK’s next prime minister, has vowed to “crack down” on university degrees with poor career outcomes. This is not a new idea. The university regulator in …
Big Brother is coming back – the reality TV landscape today will demand a more caring show: ITV Plc ITV2 has announced the return of Big Brother to the UK with a promo trailer during this year’s Love Island final. Big Brother’s successful format of putting a group of housemates together in a controlled environment …
Atiku Abubakar: Nigeria’s perennial presidential candidate is back on the stump: Atiku Abubakar Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images Atiku Abubakar is the candidate for Nigeria’s main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party, in the 2023 presidential election. He served as vice-president of Nigeria to President Olusegun Obasanjo from 1999 to 2007. Abubakar has had …
Hong Kong’s 1922 general strike: when the British empire struck back: International trade hub: Hong Kong Harbour in 1922 Following last year’s centenary of the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the first general strike to shut down a British colonial territory – Hong Kong. The strike began …
China: how does the UK’s power to push back against the rising superpower really compare to that of the EU?: Vladm/Shutterstock The EU has been at the forefront of political efforts to work with and check the threats represented by China to the west since 1975. In 2019, the EU labelled China “a systemic rival” …
Ukraine hopes to retake territory as new weapons give firepower to push back Russians: There’s recently been a shift in the tactics used by both sides in the Ukraine war, due largely to the arrival of new weapons. Initially after Russian troops crossed over into Ukraine on February 24, Ukrainian armed forces engaged in a …
Borgen is back – what the series gets right (and wrong) about Danish politics: Danish political drama Borgen has returned to screens after a ten year hiatus. Mike Kollöffel / Netflix The political drama Borgen first aired in Denmark in 2010. It soon became clear that its creator, Adam Price, had an uncanny ability to …
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