March 30, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is testing leaders, governments, parties and political systems everywhere, writes Geoff Kitney, and the global health crisis may give Beijing a big advantage in the battle for economic supremacy….
March 24, 2020
The battle to defeat the COVID-19 epidemic is inexorably guided by the laws of mathematics. It is the rate of viral transmission between individuals – and the need to reduce this –…
March 17, 2020
Peering into a crystal ball to glimpse how the emerging coronavirus crisis might unfold, bold decisions need to be made, with profound social and economic consequences. In the first of a series…
March 4, 2020
Competing forms of nationalism are about to change the economic and political world order. And the decisive moment is coming soon when “good” nationalism and its “bad” counterpoint clash. No matter which…
February 20, 2020
The Australian lesson is that concentrating policy making power in political hands to “crash through” with a bold policy agenda might work for a while but ultimately becomes a zero-sum game, writes…
January 31, 2020
The health of democracy is a matter for growing concern but the responsibility for making it work better lies with the defeated as much as it does with those who have caused…
January 23, 2020
Murray Ritchie suggests not. Here he lists the reasons why Brussels is now free to take sides in Britain’s domestic politics – and how Scotland’s European aspirations could benefit. When it comes…
January 1, 2020
The climate has turned terrorist against nature, but one dare not mention the words ‘climate change’ or ‘climate emergency’, writes Geoff Kitney I am writing this wearing a gauze mask. As I…
December 13, 2019
The people have spoken and the “Brexit Election” campaign of the Conservatives in the UK will go down as one of the most successful in recent history. The number crunching will go…
December 9, 2019
Britain’s current agony will not be ended by the general election, whatever the outcome, far less by Brexit if it ever happens. In all probability the worst will be just beginning and…