Burn out: the emotional toll of being a politician revealed

Anyone who’s ever worked in public service will understand the emotional toll it can take. In 1983, sociologist Arlie Hochshild coined the term “emotional labour” to capture this effect. She was talking about “the management of feeling to create a publicly observable facial and bodily display”. Emotional labour has beenContinue Reading

Two days after missing out on India selection, Mumbai Indians’ Suryakumar Yadav made a statement with the bat by hitting an unbeaten 79 off 43 balls to guide his team to a win against Royal Challengers Bangalore that almost qualifies them for a place in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020Continue Reading

IPL 2020, MI vs RCB: Devdutt Padikkal took a remarkable catch to dismiss Saurabh Tiwary.© BCCI/IPL Devdutt Padikkal took a remarkable catch on Wednesday evening for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) to dismiss Mumbai Indians’ (MI) Saurabh Tiwary. On the fourth ball of the 11th over in MI’s chase of 165Continue Reading

How secular Israeli millennials feel about Palestinians

View of Jaffa from Tel Aviv. Photo by Mor Shani on Unsplash A socially elite group, young secular Jewish-Israelis were once the backbone of the peace movement, working against Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza. But increasing numbers of millennial secular Jewish-Israelis, known asContinue Reading