Lisa Tilley What does it mean for a postcolonial country to be understood as an ‘emerging market’? The term itself has [...]
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Category "2018"
How Real Estate Dreams of Forever
Alexia Yates ‘Safe as houses.’ ‘Buy land - they’re not making any more.’ ‘The best investment on Earth is earth.’ Truisms [...]
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How Turkey’s Zakat Could Help Improve Global Humanitarian Aid
Eric Van Orman According to the United Nation, the problems of people across the world are getting quantifiably worse. While leading [...]
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Border Fog: Brexit’s cloud of assumptions about the Irish Border
Collin Murray The Brexit debate has long been sustained by supposed facts, shorn of context, but delivered with as much authority [...]
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Norway’s EU relationship – some possible lessons for the UK
John Erik Fossum Tight economic, cultural and political bonds tie the UK and Norway together, and Norway’s model of EU [...]
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What is the “right” amount of panic for women in public?
Fiona Vera-Gray The past six months have seen an unprecedented rise in awareness of the extent of the sexual harassment of [...]
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I’m the root of all that’s evil, but you can call me selfie
Katrin Tiidenberg Selfies have been getting a lot of attention, too much in some people’s opinion. Research into people’s selfie practices [...]
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White British Names? Welsh names are as ‘Othered’ as those of migrants in the UK context
Sara Wheeler “Families with different surnames may be asked questions to establish their relationship. Thank you” (The Home Office) It was with [...]
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Circumnavigating the past, foreclosing the future: commemoration of the radical past in the amnesiac present
Christian Garland “Don’t start from the good old things, but the bad new ones” (Brecht) Benjamin’s maxim that nothing that has ever happened [...]
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Boris the Bully
Amina Shareef In his weekly column appearing in the Daily Telegraph on August 5, Boris Johnson denounced the full burka-ban [...]
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