After my partner read Dan Salmon's novel Neands – written during lockdown in 2020
– I decided to renew my interest in our distant ancestry, in part with a concern
that homo neanderthalensis has been unable to shake off, so far, its unflattering ...
(Originally published at The Democracy Project ) Will the health reforms
proposed for the Labour Government make the system better or worse? Health commentator
Ian Powell (formerly the Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical ...
In the first month of 2020, Forbes was all excitement about fresh opportunities
for plunder and conquest. Titled “2020: The Year We Will Conquer Mars”, the contribution
by astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter was less interested in the physics than the conquest. ...
By Jennifer S. Hunt Lecturer in Security Studies, Australian National University
Twice-impeached former US President Donald Trump has evaded conviction once more.
On the fourth day of the impeachment trial, the Senate verdict is in . Voting guilty: ...
International tribunals tend to be praised, in principle, by those they avoid investigating.
Once interest shifts to those parties, such bodies become the subject of accusations:
bias, politicisation, crude arbitrariness. The United States, whose legal and political ...
By Robert McLachlan Professor in Applied Mathematics, Massey University The Climate
Change Commission’s draft advice on how to decarbonise New Zealand’s economy
is refreshing, particularly as it calls on the government to start phasing out fossil ...
