The rise and rise of Belgium’s Indian diamond dynasties
By Kathryn Lum, European University Institute
From the outside, Number 2 Hoveniersstraat Street in Antwerp is a nondescript office block. Only the clusters of businessmen...
Tony Blair is wrong: teaching children to respect religion isn’t the answer to radicalisation
By Matthew Francis, Lancaster University
At a time of increasing concern about religious radicalisation, Tony Blair has issued a call for school children to be...
Hector and the Search for Colour
By Lauren Rosewarne, University of Melbourne
Opening in Australia on October 23A six dollar ticket and 114 minutes of my time felt like a fair...
How Much of Your Data Would You Trade for a Free Cookie?
by Lois Beckett ProPublica, Oct. 1, 2014, 12 p.m.
This story was co-published with Mashable.
In a highly unscientific but delicious experiment last weekend, 380 New...
Boundaries of illegality blur as Hong Kong protests rumble on
By Surya Deva, City University Hong Kong
We often think of the distinction between legal and illegal as a matter of black and white –...
Women volunteers: first to the war zone in 1914
By Toby Thacker, Cardiff University
The volunteer is at the heart of British perceptions of the World War I. We are all familiar with images...
Turkey bombs Kurdish forces as new wave of violence threatens to spill across borders
By Alpaslan Ozerdem, Coventry University
The ongoing humanitarian tragedy of Kobanê has raised serious questions about the future of the Kurds. The unstoppable advance of...
Australian writer Richard Flanagan wins the Man Booker prize
By Preti Taneja, University of Cambridge
Richard Flanagan has won the 2014 Man Booker Prize with his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North....
