Emboldened by a lack of repercussions from NATO and the EU, Turkish President Erdogan’s regime is kidnapping dissidents. On 1 June, Orhan Inandi, a Turkish-Kyrgyz national was declared missing in the...
Politics
Turkish Spies Are Abducting Erdogan’s Political Opponents Abroad
G7 Tax Deal: If You Think Multinationals Will Be Forced To Pay...
Finance ministers in London from the G7 group of wealthy nations have agreed on a deal that has been described invariably as a landmark that will transform the landscape of global corporate tax...
Nagorno-Karabakh: In The Aftermath Of War, Armenia Faces An...
More than six months have passed since the “second Karabakh war”, as it is now called, came to an abrupt end last year with Armenia all but defeated. The ceasefire hastily signed on November 9 –...
Environment
How Sewage Plants And Data Centres Could Help Heat One In Five...
Gas boilers heat around 85% of homes in the UK, but their installation in new homes is to be banned from 2025. While heating produces over a third of the country’s CO₂ emissions, there are only two...
Depop Sale: Fashion Retailers Must Move Faster On Sustainability...
The news that Depop – Generation Z’s favourite app for selling and buying used clothing – had been sold to Etsy for $1.6bn (£1.1bn) is a warning shot for fashion retailers. For years, traditional...
Exotic Leathers: Why Fashion Products Are More Sustainable Than...
The fashion industry tries to do the right thing when it comes to sustainability – after all, its profits increasingly depend on it. But it needs help. This is where science comes in. It is the...
Culture
Line of Duty: Two Ex Anti-Corruption Officers On How The Police...
Season six of BBC crime drama Line of Duty has gripped the nation as Anti-Corruption Unit 12 (AC-12) inch ever closer to identifying the character in charge of all the “bent coppers”, only known as...
Remote Working: Why Some People Are Less Productive At Home Than...
Has working at home during lockdown made people more productive or not? This has been the subject of some lively debate recently. Many companies do not routinely measure productivity. A large number...
How Bunny Wailer Brought Innovation and Rastology to the...
The recent death of Bunny Wailer, the last surviving founding member of the Wailers has seen outpourings of grief and appreciation all over the world. But in the wake of the triple Grammy award...
Science
A New Era of Spaceflight? Promising Advances in Rocket Propulsion
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has recently commissioned three private companies, Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin and General Atomics, to develop nuclear fission thermal...
Black Swans And Other Deviations: Like Evolution, All Scientific...
Discussions about the nature of science and scientific theories are often confused by the outdated view that such theories are rendered false when anomalies arise. The notion of a scientific theory...
Origin Of Life: Lightning Strikes May Have Provided Missing...
The origin of life on Earth is one of the most complex puzzles facing scientists. It involves not only identifying the numerous chemical reactions that must take place to create a replicating...