Dec 5, 2019 | Featured, Politics & Society, Science & Technology
By David Hall Extract from Chapter Ten of David Hall’s new BWB Text A Careful Revolution: Towards a Low-Emissions Future. We wrote this report at your request, and with care. Will you listen please? – Andy Reisinger, one of nineteen haikus to summarise the IPCC...
Dec 4, 2019 | Featured, Politics & Society
By David S. Meyer By the time you read this, massive street protests will have broken out somewhere that we didn’t expect. This year seems to be one of extraordinary mass political disruption everywhere. In 2019, national leaders have stepped down from power in...
Dec 2, 2019 | Featured, Politics & Society
By Ingrid Hanon & Kathryn Lehman Over the last few weeks, Bolivia has been submerged in a climate of widespread violence and impunity. According to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, since the beginning of the political and institutional crisis...
Nov 5, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Business & Economics, Featured, Politics & Society
By Peter A. Thompson MediaWorks’ television business has been attracting a great deal of attention recently, but unfortunately not entirely in the form of audience eyeballs. In October 2019 MediaWorks announced its decision to offload its television business...
Oct 24, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Featured, Politics & Society
How important is historical memory in politics? What can we learn about how our memories of the past are manipulated to change current and future politics? What can we learn from memory entrepreneurs in places like the former Yugoslavia? How did they try to change...
Aug 9, 2018 | Arts & Culture, Business & Economics, Featured
By Claudia Russell Waking up and checking your Facebook feed is a morning routine now shared by millions. However, younger users are increasingly reaching for that ‘delete’ button instead and removing their profiles altogether. Data has tracked a mass exodus from the...