One of the things Johnson loves most about living in Estonia is its modernity – Estonia was the first country where the parliament was elected online, and he’s been hugely impressed by its transformation during the 25 or so years since he moved there. “Every year something new gets built...
I argue that, not only is it unjust, it is also both a cause and a consequence of harmful stereotypes and prejudices about male and female sexuality: (1) men are ‘always up for sex’; (2) women’s sexual purity is more important than men’s; (3) sex is something men do to ...
I’m actually with the Starmerites when they say that Corbynism is over, that it would have failed even without Brexit and a hostile media and the antisemitism bullshit, that we can’t resuscitate the past and we need to come up with something new. But what, exactly, have they come up...
It’s not just a popularity contest. Voting for the so-called “parliament of the Jewish people” in the US takes place between March 10 and May 4, 2025, offering American Jews a rare opportunity to shape Israel’s future, strengthen Jewish communities worldwide, and proudly stand for Zioni...
experts say he had his sights set on the presidency. To do that, the military’s proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) would need do well in the November elections. But Suu Kyi’s NLD won 83% of the vote, giving her a mandate and signaling a strong rejection of the mili...
Discourse 2: ‘We were fighting for a just cause’ In the ‘just cause’ discourse, student protests – whether they are violent or not – are justified in terms of a greater good or a right that should be realised. This form of justification was widely deployed in the #FeesMustFall cam...
Teaching good money habits today is harder than ever because money has become intangible and invisible – very few people carry physical notes or coins. We need to rethink how we approach financial literacy and good money habits at home, in schools and through public policy. In...
“does it put the customer first, is it something we ought to do, is it brand right. . . . If we have a reputational hit and we have customers that either decrease spend or are not spending with us at all for whatever reasons, that's really something that we want to avoid. That'...
This section discusses the need to consider devolution as a constitutive element of the politics of the urban age in Western nation-states. We present the hypothesis that the “right to decide” can be seen as a new version of a metropolitan-based “right to the city” beyond nation-states...
“When I came to look closely at it,” he told me later, “the more it appeared to me that the European project was a deliberate attempt to reverse what happened at Babel. To say that the idea of the nation-state is redundant and that what we need to build is a strong i...