Tech giants are using their dominant positions to shorten the lives of electronic goods. This is bad for consumers and worse for the planet.
A new nuclear arms race is under way. The 75th anniversary of Hiroshima should make us reflect on the sheer destructive potential of these weapons.
Secretive COVID contracts show how big data firms are taking over our healthcare. What are they – and the British government – hoping to get out of it?
Do we need benign dictators to deal with the climate crisis? A new index of intergenerational solidarity provides the answer
The government has pledged to ‘reform’ the way in which citizens can challenge the lawfulness of its own decisions. This should worry us all.
Ahead of presidential elections, a new protest wave in Belarus is forcing another kind of contest - over who “the people” are, and who gets to speak for them.
Many scientists say that societal collapse is now a likely outcome. We must prepare for this possibility and not deny its plausibility.
A recent scandal over a scientific article once again raises thorny issues of who produces expert knowledge - and why.
If all we do is fight, we won’t be able to forge coalitions that are broad, deep and strong enough to confront our biggest problems.
Trump’s eagerness to ‘bring our boys home’ is leaving the Afghan government with little power to resist the Taliban afterwards.
Patent enclosure by pharmaceutical giants results in many being denied life-saving treatments. It’s time for a new approach.
Suggesting that ‘the uncrowned King of Scotland’ worked to end slavery, rather to entrench it, is irresponsible revisionism and bad history.
