For the first two decades of this century, it was widely thought that new technologies would deliver a tangible and inexorable rise in wellbeing for everyone. Technology promised us new ways to learn and to be entertained; to find new relationships and to strengthen existing ones. It offered a means to make our working lives…

Click here to view our latest issue. When Covid-19 first struck, all our knowledge of the outside world seemed to reach us through data. Charts, graphs, tables and visualisations were the new language of global politics, with analysis of different countries boiling down to a scorecard of their pandemic performance. Where were cases highest? Where…

We are now accepting submissions for our fifth issue, to be published in October. The focus of this issue will be on the topic of “new beginnings” — reflecting how much of economics and domestic and international politics has had to reinvent itself to adapt to new circumstances over the last 18 months. We are…