Today we hear from best-selling author Elif Shafak; globally renowned architect… 1 Jan 2025 Tuesday 31 December A pacy round-up of the day’s main news stories, anchored from London by Emma Nelson. 31 Dec 2024 Monday 30 December A pacy round-up of the day’s main news stories, ...
AMONG the myriad voices telling women to "lean in", fight for their place at the boardroom, achieve the "work-life merge", feminist writer Elif Shafak is suggesting a gentler alternative. One of Turkey's most famous novelists and a new London resident, in her memoir Black Milk Shafak ...
Chapter 1 7 minutes Venezuela: Can Brazil continue to play the role of mediator? Brazil’s president, Lula da Silva, is in Chile meeting with fellow left-leaning leader Gabriel Boric. Both countries are trying to figure out how to deepen their own ties and how to deal with Venezuela’s ...
is because the Fed is “more sensitive to the needs of the wealthy few than the rest of us.” As such, the Fed’s claim that it is an independent government agency is a complete myth. Epstein is professor of economics and co-director of the Political Economy...
I’m sure many others could be added but here are some of my personal favourites: Freya Stark, Elif Shafak, F. Tennyson Jesse, Bryher, Anna Akhmatova, Nawal El Sadaawi, Lisa St Aubin de Terán, Gertrud Kolmar, Alexandra David-Néel, Dervla Murphy, Else Lasker-Schüler, Qiu Jin and Mae...
The answer is that blockchain cannot replace any of these things. Rather, blockchain facilitates alternative forms of trust. Trust between parties that have never met, who have not heard of one another, who do not like each other, who compete with each other and – I’m...