Agriculture is a critical part of the economy of Ireland. In 2019 exports from the sector were worth €14.5 billion . However, the sector is facing a number of threats from Brexit...
Author - Srivats Lakshman
The Story of Chilli is One of Politics, Geography and Culture
Chilli peppers are today an essential part of almost all major cuisines in some way or the other. They are the key to Asian, African, Latin American, and constitute an important part of Britain’s...
The Future Of Organ Transplants is Cultivation, Not Donation
The researchers are fully aware that implantation and testing the livers in rats is just the first step in a long road to creating fully-functional organs for humans. If and when Soto-Gutierrez’s...
Russian Arms Sales are Fueling Africa’s Conflicts
Russia plays a critical role in Africa, it is responsible for 49% of arms exports to the continent and those arms sales are fueling Africa's conflicts.
From Probation to Regulation: The Economics of Cannabis...
Governments are now moving from probation to cannabis legalisation, as a way to tackle the increase in consumption and take away benefits from it.
Sub-Saharan Africa has a Huge Drug Problem and it Will Get Worse
When it comes to drugs, the focus has largely been on developing regions as sites of production or transportation, rather than consumption. The reality is, however, far more shocking. Sub-Saharan...
Farming the Final Frontier: The Race To Grow Plants in Space
Hollywood isn’t always known for its scientific accuracy, especially when it comes to movies about space. However, with NASA setting its sights on returning to the moon, sometimes a movie can...
The Rise, and Potential Fall of the Asian Century
With the US/China relationship becoming increasingly fractured China-USA relationship, questions about Asia’s future and the emerging new world order are being asked, casting doubt on the dream of...
The Effect of Polarised Politics on American Diplomacy
Former deputy secretary of state, and author of The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for its Renewal, William J Burns puts forward a strong argument that the partisan divide...
Computers Can Do a Lot of Things, but Reading Isn’t One of...
Modern-day computers are some of the most powerful objects we have created. They can take us to space, measure our heart rate on a run and help us create graphics that are lifelike. However, while...
To Fight Populist Politics, the Left Needs to Embrace Emotional...
Populist politicians are not new to the global stage, they have routinely emerged throughout history. However, thanks to the internet, populists in the 21st century are proving to be difficult to...
Dante Lee Was Denied a Coronavirus Test. It’s a Familiar Story...
Dante Lee is an African American living in San Diego. In early March, he began showing symptoms of COVID-19. As any responsible adult should do, Dante began self-isolating. But three days later, as...
Big Data is Undermining the Foundations of Liberal Democracy
Today the forces shaping our world aren't nation states, but rather corporations. These corporations, run the global economy on the oil of the Information Age - data.
Architecture, Politics and Society: Timothy Hyde Explores their...
Buildings are essentially social and cultural products, and are influenced by the ideas, values, beliefs, activities, relationships and forms of the social organizations that they sustain.
Africa in Lockdown: Why the Cons Outweigh the Pros
For nations where older people make up less of the population, the health benefits of a lockdown are more limited. The downsides outweigh the pros, which can lead to long-term effects in African...
Is Sweden’s Approach the Right Way to Tackle the Coronavirus?
Nations around the world are using different tactics to deal with the novel coronavirus, but almost all of them involve some form of lockdown and social isolation orders. Sweden however, decided to...
Coronavirus and Starvation. How Lockdowns are Increasing Hunger...
One of the few positives that has come from lockdowns around the world is that many people in the west are experiencing the joys of cooking for the first time. However, while they are doing so...
Coronavirus is Coming to the Developing World and No-one is...
Policy failures meant that the western world failed to test its population, but that’s a luxury the developing world cannot afford. The lack of resources, when added to their huge populations, is a...
Is China’s Belt and Road Initiative COVID-19’s Biggest...
The BRI was meant to solidify the global reliance on China as the world’s supplier. However, because of the pandemic, many private industries have either shut down, or shifted to manufacturing...
The Lockdown in India Has Sparked the Nation’s Worst Migration...
Announced just hours before going into effect, the lockdown has sparked the nation’s worst migration crisis since independence. Millions of migrant workers have since been scrambling to get home...