Adam Limb / Columnists / Comment / Think Tank
by Mallard Columnist · Published November 16, 2021 · Last modified March 10, 2022
The discourse around house prices is always plentiful, largely because they have and continue to hold such ludicrous prices with no signs of stopping any time soon. At this point everyone is aware of...
Mikhail Gorbachev gave a speech in 1985, in Leningrad, highlighting the failures of the Soviet economy and lashing out at communist activists in the process. Here, Gorbachev stated that they ‘squander countless resources in...
“There’s an unspoken agreement among the people in charge of our country not to talk about what has happened to it. They’re personally implicated in its decline… so they maintain an increasingly strict policy...
The return of the Taliban this year has seen renewed violence against many women and girls in Afghanistan. Women are set to face more uncertainty as the new Taliban government starts to impose their...
There’s more to Stirling than meets the eye. From the outskirts of the city, where neatly-kept council houses are dwarfed by the distant Ochil Hills, through to the cobbled European-like streets which wind their...
Right now, when I am about to begin writing this piece, it is precisely eighty-three years ago that Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich, carrying with him an agreement – signed by Hitler – that...
Columnists / Comment / Jake Painter / Think Tank
by Guest Contributor · Published October 20, 2021 · Last modified May 10, 2022
When thinking of subjects such as these, one must be careful not to conflate what they want to happen with what will happen. It is no secret that China is remerging to its historical...
In a follow up to a previous article, which examines the unforeseen societal effects that the Coronavirus Pandemic has brought about onto young people from around the world. This being that most young people...
At least since Marcel Mauss, anthropologists have been finding that, rather than replacing barter, money as we treat it today replaces imprecise, socially embedded, exchange. Think of the ad hoc way in which a...
The lauded security of global networks now shows its flipside – Covid-19 is global, exploiting the networks more effectively than we ever could. The ‘curse’ of the nation state is resurrected in no uncertain...
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