Two things are clear: radical new ways of getting rich have been invented, and things have probably never been this unequal since before the second world war Oxfam's latest report claims that income inequality has reached a new global extreme, exceeding even its predictions from the precious year. The figures behind this claim are striking - just 62 individuals now hold the same wealth as the bo..
Even the most exhibitionist confessional journalists or Facebook users are probably just doing that most human of things: reaching out There was a piece earlier this week about vagina detox pearls that caused some division on Twitter. "New bar set for oversharing journalism," said one user. "The reading equivalent of Tough Mudder. NSF Anywhere." Fair enough. Not everyone wants to read about fizz..
Stik and Stewy are other street artists addressing issues such as housing and the migration crisis. This isn't antisocial - it's deeply social To see interesting art you don't have to go to a gallery, you just have to walk the streets. One of the most reproduced images of the past couple of weeks is a mural, commissioned in Brixton, of David Bowie, by the Australian street artist Jimmy C (James ..
To some, shattering the 'hardest glass ceiling' doesn't seem so revolutionary any more. Others, like Lena Dunham, aim to help bridge a generational divide The other day in Manhattan, Hillary Clinton supporters met for lunch at the home of the media executive Geraldine Layborne. A group of 50, mostly women, was determined to generate excitement for Clinton's campaign for president. They were frus..
Saudi Arabia has British military advisers and continues to bomb Yemeni civilians with British weapons. Yet our government is strangely quiet about it Britain is arming and aiding a fundamentalist dictatorship that's bombing and killing civilians. This is an incontestable fact. The Saudi tyranny - gay-hating women-oppressors who kicked off the year with ~a mass beheading - has been waging war in..
Where to from here? Indigenous people may be united in a sense of shared identity, but like any population, we are lacerated by divisions Australia Day has passed and for all the debate, Indigenous people woke up today to the same reality. These are lives framed by statistics that condemn so many to misery. But it is not enough to wallow in that pain or to remain shacked to our history. The chal..
Every day millions of internet users ask Google some of life's most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queries Why do the lights keep going on and off? How is less more? What place does a balloon dog have in an art gallery? Or, as a lot of people have been asking Google: "Why does contemporary art look so simple?" I am tempted to answer - because it's id..
I used to be proud of my country's humane attitude to immigration, but with this draconian policy to seize refugees' assets the government has gone too far Last August I wrote an article under the headline: "Refugees should head for Denmark - here are five reasons why". It created a media storm here in Denmark; within 24 hours I had appeared on every national broadcast media. On the political TV..
Most coffee consumed in the US comes from Latin America, and no ethnic group drinks more of it than Latinos. For several business, it's a recipe for success. When Ulysses Romero opened his first Tierra Mia Coffee in 2008, Los Angeles was on the verge of a specialty coffee boom. Chicago's Intelligentsia had just moved in the year before, sparking a surge in in third-wave coffeehouses. Romero, a b..
Will it clear up by itself? Could it be asthma or even lung cancer? And when should you see the GP? Coughing is generally a good thing: it is a reflex action that keeps the airways clear of mucus, dust, smoke and bugs - and most coughs clear up by themselves with in three weeks. But if a cough lasts longer than this and is getting gradually worse, it is worth seeing a GP. Breathlessness, coughin..
Breck Bednar, a 14-year-old boy who loved gaming, was groomed online and murdered in 2014. His mother, Lorin FaFave, was worried - would her pleas for help from police have been taken more seriously if he'd been a girl? I approach Lorin LaFave's house in Caterham, Surrey, set back and unlit on a long dark road. My fear is that she's behind the door, dreading my arrival. I'm thinking how difficul..
Livvy has been brought up by her mother and her aunt. The three have lived as a family since she was born - and it has worked beautifully. Now they are campaigning to get alternative family units like theirs recognized in law Catherine and Ginda Utley have entirely shared the raising of Livvy; but they are not a gay couple and that has caused them somewhat of a problem. In fact, they are sisters..
It suits western policymakers to caution that China is darkening the global financial outlook - but the country is unlikely to go into imminent deep freeze China is making headlines - but not for the best of reasons. It just recorded its lowest growth rate - 6.9% in 2015 - in more than 20 years, but even this is thought to be exaggerated. A lot of western policymakers, including Georage Osborne ..
Any human interaction was tortuous to me. I felt suicidal, but then I got a job in the City and my life started to change Social anxiety disorder seems to be rooted, s Sartre plausibly pointed out, in the fact that most of what we are is a projection of what others think of us. We should all be afraid of "the look" of another person because it's an unfathomable abyss into our very essence. And y..
A friends in need is a friend indeed, but forget Facebook, research shows that you can count on just four in crisis - so here's how to keep those relationships rosy If you're one of those people who get a warm glow from browsing through their list of 400 Facebook 'friends", look away now. New research suggests that in a crisis, you can probably count on just four of them. The paper was published..