Electoral dysfunction across the continent tells the same story: citizens are convinced that democratic procedures serve ...
In the United States, along with Trump’s authoritarianism, Amazon has escalated its anti-democratic tactics, attempting to ...
The answers to both challenges lie in boosting innovation and increasing the commercialisation of new technologies, products and processes into new startups and fast-growing companies that spur local ...
Calls to disarm Hezbollah are mounting — but lasting peace is impossible without a Lebanese state that can reclaim real ...
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Andy Westwood

Professor of Public Policy, Government and Business and Policy Director of the Productivity Institute at the University of Manchester. He is a board member at Skills England and a governor at the ...
Algorithms meant to protect users now silence those who speak plainly about sexual violence, forcing euphemisms where truth ...
Oliver Roethig heads UNI Europa, the European service workers union with seven million members, as its Regional Secretary, first elected in 2011. He is a member of the Management Committee of the ...
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John Austin

Visiting Fellow at the Academy of International Affairs – NRW, and a Senior Fellow with the Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College (EI), leading EI’s work promoting ideas and network-building to ...
By framing digital sovereignty around regulation and political autonomy, big tech has deflected attention from deeper ...
The Trump plan divides the Gaza Strip, perpetuating the suffering. Meanwhile, the UN Security Council is playing along ...
Nigerian not-for-profit organisation that promotes understanding and commitment of citizens and groups to the ideals, values and principles of democracy. He is also an FES Nigeria ‘Open Minds Young ...
In behavioural experiments they perform exactly as economic theory suggests that humans will behave, acting as ...