Off the scale
Locally grown food is growing. Can data help plough the furrow? By Lynne Davis 2020 was a year like no other, but for those of us working in community-led food …
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A change of key
How can we make work in the post-pandemic world work for us? Richard McNeill Douglas plays with some ideas. Covid has not been the only pandemic we have had to …
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Let’s not go back to the future
Data can be misread, warns Jan Berlage. On considering which key competence they need for the labour market of the future, Simone, Vishal, Luke, Pedder and Beatrice, all part of …
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Don’t count on it
Jonathan Aldred explains how there is more to equations than numbers when it comes to Covid policy. According to Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, when the pandemic hit …
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Algorithm and blues: whose tune do we dance to?
Artificial intelligence rarely gets it wrong – it’s the culture that programmed it that’s messed up, says Madhavi Venkatesan. I have become accustomed to my smart phone alerting me in …
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The Klarna Conundrum
Whether you use Klarna all the time or have barely heard of it, it’s time to start paying attention: the buy-now-pay-later app has just become the biggest private fintech company …
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Global South countries come together
The Summit brings together Global South governments, political leaders, healthcare workers and vaccine manufacturers from more than twenty countries and follows criticism of the G7’s plan by U.N. aid chief …
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UK will miss climate goals by without new policies
The UK government has once again failed to come forward with sufficient policies to meet the ambition of its climate goals, according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC). Across nearly …
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Surging inflation in Nigeria fuels crime wave – World Bank
Surging inflation is undermining the recovery of Africa’s biggest economy, pushing 7 million Nigerians into poverty and encouraging criminality as rising prices deplete already meager incomes, according to the World …
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G7 Tax Reform for the 1%—Not the 99%
Despite the recent G7 agreement on corporate taxation, global leadership requires going beyond national interests to ensure that all countries have sufficient resources to develop healthier post-pandemic economies. This will …
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