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When the US military shot down an unmanned Chinese aircraft many thought the worst. Joshua Brown looks at why things might have even grown better. When a Chinese surveillance balloon …
Why didn’t the balloon go up? Read More
Dirk Ehnts suggests that Liz Truss’s downfall may have not been because she was wrong. Shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, said in 2021 that delaying tackling climate breakdown would be at …
Was Truss on the money? Read More
Frederic Hache questions proposals that perpetual growth can be made sustainable by planting trees. In an article published by Le Monde in December, 2023, the President of the French Republic, …
Can finance save polar bears? Read More
Christine Nikander finds bargains in the global secondhand store of transition metals. Growth in the production and trade of most critical raw materials is not keeping up with the expected …
E-waste recycling: time to peddle harder Read More
Nicolette Boater investigates whether privilege, connection or economic thinking and practice wins the day for nature’s protection. The image is by James Allen. In summer 2023 the UK’s National Trust …
Natural beauties: a dollar and a half to see ‘em Read More
Surgery by Christopher Mouré and Shai Gorsky to explore what takes the not out of not-for-profit healthcare in the US. At the end of November 2023, the New York Times …
Unhealthy profits Read More
There is a backlash against Nudge Theory. In the original “nudge manifesto”, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein promoted the political value of …
Nudge theory: the elbow or helping hand? Read More
Willy Diddens examines how pet care is becoming dominated by big finance. On 21 October 2021 the World Economic Forum, in an article on its internet site, honoured an unexpected …
The rising costs of creature comforts Read More
Lebohang Liepollo Pheko tells how wellbeing means different things depending on where you are looking from. The idea of promoting wellbeing economies has been gaining traction, especially among a few …
Not all’s well Read More
Stewart Lansley provides a measure of the task faced by any party that might genuinely seek to tackle poverty in the UK. Labour’s shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has said that a Labour …
Is the opposition equal to the challenge? Read More