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A new Chamber of Commerce to be launched on the Rock between Gibraltar and...
For Israeli companies, Gibraltar can serve as an ideal testing ground for new technologies as well as the ultimate gateway into the bigger European markets. On the 28th of October, a new Chamber of...
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Scar tissue: Is A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara more than the sum of its...
Yanagihara’s Booker-shortlisted novel explores abuse but sheds little new light on her subject. Not quite a third of the way into A Little Life, one of this year’s most divisive novels and hotly...
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In defence of cultural appropriation
Our cultures show that we can select who we are and who we want to be – but can they also be misused? Kim Jong-il may have been the Dear Leader but Elvis was the King. On a visit to North Korea, the...
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Robots are coming for your job. That might not be bad news
The problem with automation isn’t technology. The problem is capitalism. Do androids dream of a three-day week? This week, Professor Stephen Hawking weighed in on the topic that’s obsessing...
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Ankara bombs: Turkey is being torn apart by bad leaders and bad neighbours
This is the worst terror attack in Turkey’s history. In just a few months, hundreds of civilians, Turkish security personnel and PKK members have been killed. It had already been a deadly summer of...
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Behind the mask, Boris Johnson's mayoralty has been a disaster
If giving good conference speeches and writing well made a Mayor, Boris Johnson would be the best there's ever been. But unfortunately, there's a bit more required. If dangling on a zip wire waving...
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Could technology hold the key to eliminating financial exclusion?
Technology and electronic payments are a lever, providing new ways to bring people into the system and to reduce vulnerable citizens’ reliance on cash. There is still a long way to go to improve the...
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Part II: Is the Government fulfilling its role in the fight against cancer?
In the second in her series of interviews with leading politicians, Larushka Mellor, asks Iain Wright MP, “Is the government fulfilling its role in the fight against cancer?”The independent cancer...
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While teacher shortages threaten our schooling, the government is obsessing...
Rather than worrying about the name of the place that teaches children, the government should focus on the shortage of people to teach them in the first place. This week new analysis was published...
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Pay to win: how videogame companies exploit players with deliberately poor...
Designers will destroy the games industry if they continue contriving frustrating, time-consuming situations that players can only avoid by paying. If a line exists between earning money making...
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Labour to vote against George Osborne's fiscal charter after U-turn
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell withdraws support and says Labour will "underline our position as an anti-austerity party". There was much surprise when John McDonnell announced on 25 September that...
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SRSLY #14: Interns, Housemaids and Witches
On the pop culture podcast this week, we discuss the Robert De Niro-Anne Hathaway film The Intern, the very last series of Downton Abbey, and Sylvia Townsend Warner’s novel Lolly Willowes. This is...
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Labour tensions boil over at fractious MPs’ meeting
Corbyn supporters and critics clash over fiscal charter U-turn and new group Momentum. “A total fucking shambles.” That was the verdict of the usually emollient Ben Bradshaw as he left tonight's...
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Records, books and handwritten notes: the rise of low tech
When new technologies emerge, the old ones are meant to fall by the wayside - but sometimes, they manage to rise from the ashes. No one was surprised when HMV went into administration in January...
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Why is the government charging more women for selling sex but turning a blind...
Since 2013, the number of women charged for selling sex gone up while the number of men charged for buying it has gone down. It’s no surprise that prostitution policy is an area rarely visited by our...
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Sunjeev Sahota’s The Year of the Runaways: a subtle study of “economic...
Sahota’s Man Booker-shortlisted novel goes to places we would all rather not think about. This summer’s crisis has reinforced the distinction that is often made between refugees, who deserve...
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“It's nothing radical”: Jeremy Corbyn supporters on why his politics are just...
The new Labour leader's backers are opposed to austerity and passionate about grassroots democracy – just don't call them “radical”. Stand-up comedian Grainne Maguire has been a long-time supporter of...
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Archbishop Welby and the hidden price of being Mister Nice Guy
Doubtless Welby’s supporters will find such a description rude to the point of impiousness – but for those of us who live in an uncloistered world, the most significant indicators of his true nature...
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Fanging out: why do vampire bats groom each other so often?
New research shows social grooming and food sharing are more common adaptive traits in vampire bats than other species. A new study has shown social grooming behaviour is more prevalent in vampire bat...
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A simple U-Turn may not be enough to get the Conservatives out of their tax...
The Tories are in a mess over cuts to tax credits. But a mere U-Turn may not be enough to fix the problem. A spectre is haunting the Conservative party - the spectre of tax credit cuts. £4.4bn worth...
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