Protesters hold placards reading ‘we know who the killer is’.
Reuters/Murad Sezer
Beleaguered president may about to receive an unequivical message from voters.
Cooling enthusiasm. Is a key part of climate change mitigation going up in smoke?
Jonathan Brennan
A technology designed to reduce the effect of fossil fuels on the climate has received £1 bln in subsidies and has nothing to show for it.
Leaving the club?
tristam sparks
We should be debating the options for Brexit to better understand what is at stake.
The wisdom of crowds? An anti-corruption rally in India.
Ishan Khosla
Could the key to countering a culture of bribery and greed be in the hands of the people?
Circus posters.
flickr
Contemporary circus and circus-infused physical theatre are amongst Australia’s most innovative and in-demand cultural exports. It’s a performance craft with a proud history behind it.
Discretionary pricing… for scientists and surveyors.
Hidden Science Map
If the government wants to tackle wealth inequality, then it has the tools at its disposal to help people pay a fair amount for everyday goods.
Another chance? Tsipras seeks a new mandate.
REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis
An opposition politician and academic argues that new revelations from the Syriza leadership imply that the Prime Minister misled the Greek people.
Except for Ben Carson, there’s a slate of clean-shaven candidates.
Reuters
Beards are in. So why aren’t politicians following suit?
Why are people so drawn to Trump?
Lucas Jackson/Reuters
Trump is an ad-man’s dream, a candidate who reflects what the best advertisements possess.
For publishers, Australian political memoir or biography is likely to pay its own way, at the very least.
AAP Image/Lukas Coch
More than a dozen political memoirs were published in Australia last year. Does that make us a nation of political junkies? If not, why so many books and what do they contribute to cultural debate?
Testing times for broadcasters in transition.
Sam Greenhalgh
A fractured broadcasting industry is destroying the business model for the giants. There are winners in the wings though, and the BBC could yet be one of them.
Virgin territory. Sunrise over the Arctic resources battleground.
NOAA Photo Library
The economic viability of extracting oil from the frozen north might be doubtful, but the geopolitical significance could be massive.
Alan Newman
Best of times, worst of times: How leadership elections and an EU referendum are conspiring to leave party donations on the backburner just when it seems most possible to make a difference.
A ragged record. UK and corruption.
jimjarmo
David Cameron’s call for an era of clean money has opened the door to a host of problems for the powerful as capitalism struggles into a new era.
Humans are irrational. Superheroes also.
Santi Molina
Let’s face facts. Behavioural finance shows you are not to be trusted with your retirement planning.
Are savers and pensioners in the chancellor’s sights?
Badly Drawn Dad
A “triple lock” election commitment to keep taxes down is just pushing the pursuit of revenue into other areas – with the threat of more to come.
Heading for a fall. An investor watches on as Chinese stocks tumbled earlier this month.
How Hwee Young/EPA
Beijing needs to learn to let go of untameable markets and allow the sector into the 21st century.
Not just for the workless.
from shutterstock.com
MPs will vote Monday on a welfare bill which imagines a world where work is a gilded path away from poverty.
Engine of growth.
Scottish Government
The way the UK thinks about workplaces and workers means that those learning a trade are at a disadvantage. And that’s bad news as we attempt to add 3m apprentices to the mix.
From more charitable times.
Montecruz Foto
The race to become the new FC Barcelona president reaches a climax this weekend, and there is more at stake than football.