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Big Tech companies are grabbing our most basic natural resources – our data – exploiting our labour and connections, and repackaging our information to control our views, track our movements, record our conversations and discriminate against us.

Sociologist Richard Sennett speaks about his new book, The Performer: art, life, politics.

Globally the proportion of people who live in rural areas is declining, yet the net number continues to increase: from 3 billion in 1990 to 3.4 billion in 2020.

An increasingly challenging global economic environment calls for an evidence-based discussion of the next stage of the UK’s strategy for the attraction and retention of Foreign Direct Investment to fast-track sustainable growth and productivity.

The German Finance Minister talks about new realities and strengthening Germany’s competitiveness for the benefit of its economy and its partners.

Current media coverage of AI seems to assume that it has just suddenly appeared out of the blue.

Mark R. Beissinger provides a new understanding of how revolutions happen and what they might look like in the future.

How can resorts, with their wealth of cultural heritage, forge a new future?

This episode of LSE Extra iQ asks, 'Why do so many people mistakenly think they are working class?'.

Speakers address what was achieved in these negotiations, how the Treaty speaks to global justice, equity, and climate change and what happens next in terms of ratification and entry into force of the Treaty.