After several years of significant macroeconomic and geopolitical events such as the Covid-19 crisis, the war in Ukraine, the return of inflation and rising interest rates, the year 2023 seemed to mark a form of stabilisation in the international environment in the absence of any notable new ev...
She explained that the way into stories for her is through concepts, and gave a brilliant example in the shape a story in her latest collection that was commissioned to explore how Northern Ireland is seen in the wake of Brexit. She had approached the subject by envisaging a baby drifting ...
experienced its worst election result since the end of apartheid in South Africa. The ANC remained the largest party but lost the parliamentary majority, winning less than 42% of the vote. ANC’s decline is attributed to voter dissatisfaction over unemployment, power cuts, violent crime and crumb...
The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, has issued a stark warning to the Dutch public, telling them to learn from the mistakes of the British government while the Brexit negotiations continue to be dogged by setbacks in the UK for Prime Minister Theresa May. The Brexit vote was ...
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The pandemic and Sino-American tensions almost over-shadowed what would have been the principal trade story of the year: nearly four-and-a-half years after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, London and Brussels finally completed Brexit. On December 30, 2020—one day prior ...
with little regard forthe consequences of his mega bets, but gives it away withmessianic zeal. They detect in his philanthropy a sense of repressed guilt. Those who know him well, however, say the samestrand ofrebellion and high tolerance for risk runs through everything he has accomplished,...
the consequences ripple out around the world, changing the Western palate and enriching many of those engaged in the commodity’s exploitation. But for its bright young discoverer, who harbours ambitions ‘to become the first Black botanist in this world of Rich Whites’ but ‘doesn’t have th...
Quantified data, statistics and data visualisations often catch our attention more than just words. That much is not new. But this year, the impact of misleading data claims and campaigns led to unexpected consequences in some of the world’s largest economies. In fact, political campaigns over...
This sounds alarm bells for investors because that could have severe consequences for national and global markets. To avoid the risk of default, the debt ceiling needs to be raised by Congress, which has been done many times. One such example occurs in January 2023. At this time, U.S. ...