It is widely acknowledged that the financial system plays a central role in modern economies and that the actions of financiers can have negative effects on wider society, exemplified by the ‘banker-bashing’ that followed the
It has been over a year since Turkey banned the online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia. This decision was part of an effort to clamp down on a supposed smear campaign aimed at President Erdogan. The opposition argue, by
The World Cup matters to Colombia more than most countries. As a country with a reputation for violence and drugs, football is a chance for Colombia to present a favourable face to the world based
Are we feeling the tremors of a political ‘youthquake’? This question has been keenly debated since the 2016 EU referendum and the 2017 General Election revealed that age has become the key demographic dividing line
Mushroom clouds in burning skies, wandering skulls, and thousands of people confined in atomic shelters as insects: the final decade of the Cold War brought a global proliferation of visual expressions of the anxiety of
Throughout history, storytelling has often bent the truth to create a better, more interesting story. The latest Hugh Jackman film ‘The Greatest Showman’ does just this. In its rags-to-riches musical fairytale, P. T. Barnum appears