Bitcoin is everywhere in the news, yet many people struggle to understand what it is or why anyone wants it. Joakim Sandberg argues that its appeal rests on two sentiments of our age: blind faith in technological progress and deep distrust of banks and governments. Both lead us astray. Bitcoin’s technology is more cumbersome and costly than ordinary money, with a carbon footprint larger than Sweden’s, and rather than empowering citizens it mainly empowers tech investors and c

When a climber recently died near the summit of the Großglockner, her partner was convicted of negligent manslaughter. Findlay Stark asks whether omissions and inadvertence can ground criminal blame.

The UK now grants refugees just 30 months' protection, after which they face deportation review, repeated every 30 months for up to 20 years. The government claims this reflects the true purpose of refugee protection. But does it? Hillier-Smith argues that understanding the full range of harms and injustices refugees actually endure reveals that this policy is far from fulfilling our obligations to refugees.