The Better Voice Staff

The Better Voice Staff

Our editorial team explores the ideas, developments and cultural shifts shaping how we live, work and lead. Across business, education, lifestyle, arts & culture, and sustainability, our articles go beyond surface-level coverage to examine emerging trends, challenge conventional thinking, and uncover perspectives that deserve greater attention.

Grounded in research, real-world developments, and thoughtful analysis, we aim to make complex subjects accessible, relevant and engaging. Each article is driven by a clear point of view, offering readers fresh insights and a deeper understanding of the issues shaping our world.

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When Cities Become Destinations, but Not Homes

When Cities Become Destinations, but Not Homes

A city can fill its hotels, attract billions in investment and become one of the world's most desirable places to visit, yet become increasi...

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Diaspora Bonds in a World of Crisis: When Does Loyalty Become Capital?

Diaspora Bonds in a World of Crisis: When Does Loyalty Become Capital?

When conflict or a climate disaster hits, a country may need more money than it can raise at home. Roads, homes and power systems may need r...

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Why Building a Secure Future Is Becoming Harder for the Next Generation

Why Building a Secure Future Is Becoming Harder for the Next Generation

For years, one sentence has been handed down almost like a family guarantee: study hard, work hard, and you will be fine. For many families...

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The 	Price of Uncertainty: Why Political Stability Is an Economic Asset

The Price of Uncertainty: Why Political Stability Is an Economic Asset

In October 2026, France found itself facing a crisis that began in classrooms but soon reached the streets, businesses and financial markets...

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When the Past Disappears: Saving Our Cultural Heritage From Climate Change

When the Past Disappears: Saving Our Cultural Heritage From Climate Change

Imagine a child standing before the ruins of a centuries old monument, asking their grandparent what happened there. Perhaps it was a place ...

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Rwanda's Women in Power: Is Political Representation Changing Everyday Life?

Rwanda's Women in Power: Is Political Representation Changing Everyday Life?

A law that allows a woman to inherit land. A health centre where a mother can give birth safely. A girl who has a better chance of completin...

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When Bigger Budgets Create Bigger Risks

When Bigger Budgets Create Bigger Risks

Hollywood has never been short of money, ambition or spectacle. But none of these guarantees an audience. In an era when audiences scroll th...

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El Niño Could Put 347 Million Children's Futures at Risk. Why Climate Disruption Goes Beyond the Weather.

El Niño Could Put 347 Million Children's Futures at Risk. Why Climate Disruption Goes Beyond the Weather.

El Niño gets its name from a little boy and its effects can reach millions of children around the world. The name dates back centuries, wh...

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Paramount Completes $110bn Warner Bros Takeover To Reshape Hollywood’s Entertainment Industry

Paramount Completes $110bn Warner Bros Takeover To Reshape Hollywood’s Entertainment Industry

Hollywood has a new giant. Whether it will become a better business is another question. On 6 October 2026, Paramount completed its acquisi...

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This Year’s Nobel Prize Could Change How We Understand the Brain

This Year’s Nobel Prize Could Change How We Understand the Brain

What if scientists could turn a single group of brain cells on and off with light? Not metaphorically. Not by watching the brain from the o...

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The End Of Football’s Greatest Era.

The End Of Football’s Greatest Era.

For almost two decades, football had one question it could never seem to let go of. Messi or Ronaldo? It began as a debate about footbal...

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Jeffrey Archer: The Storyteller Who Lived Many Lives

Jeffrey Archer: The Storyteller Who Lived Many Lives

Some writers leave behind books. Others leave behind a feeling. Jeffrey Archer left behind both. He passed away peacefully at his home on...

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The Unequal Cost of Climate Change

The Unequal Cost of Climate Change

Climate change has created a bill that the world now has to pay. The bill appears in flooded roads, damaged homes, failing crops, disappeari...

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Neuroplasticity And The Science of Becoming Our Better Selves Over Time.

Neuroplasticity And The Science of Becoming Our Better Selves Over Time.

“With neuroplasticity on my side, I can literally become exactly who I want to be.” That was Eileen Gu’s answer when a reporter ask...

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The Blue Economy Nobody Talks About: Can Protecting Water Become Financially Valuable?

The Blue Economy Nobody Talks About: Can Protecting Water Become Financially Valuable?

Sustainable finance has spent the last two decades learning how to make environmental responsibility part of the language of capital. Gree...

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Before We Reform Education, We Should Ask Why It Was Built This Way

Before We Reform Education, We Should Ask Why It Was Built This Way

Are we still designing education for the problems our countries had yesterday, or for the problems they will face tomorrow? The most reve...

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Are We Nostalgic Of A Past We Never Experienced?

Are We Nostalgic Of A Past We Never Experienced?

The past is suddenly everywhere! Open Instagram today and you might find yourself looking at photographs that seem to have been taken decad...

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Luxury Brands Are Selling Experiences, Not Just Products

Luxury Brands Are Selling Experiences, Not Just Products

Luxury Is Expanding Beyond The Product Ever wondered why a clothing brand as established as Ralph Lauren is selling coffee from carts and c...

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When Did Eating Become a Protein Calculation?

When Did Eating Become a Protein Calculation?

There was a time when choosing breakfast meant deciding between eggs, cereal, toast or fruit. Now, increasingly, it can sound like a maths p...

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Why Does Every Company Suddenly Have a Chief Sustainability Officer?

Why Does Every Company Suddenly Have a Chief Sustainability Officer?

Twenty years ago, the typical C-suite was relatively easy to recognise. There was a Chief Executive Officer, a Chief Financial Officer, per...

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The Global Revival of Indigenous Design

The Global Revival of Indigenous Design

For much of the modern era, global design often moved in one direction. Western minimalism dominated interiors. International...

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Why Clean Tech Is Becoming the New Global Power Race

Why Clean Tech Is Becoming the New Global Power Race

For decades, global power was shaped by oil, gas, minerals, military strength, manufacturing scale, and technological dominance. Countries t...

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Climate Tech Is No Longer a Niche - It Is the Next Business Battlefield

Climate Tech Is No Longer a Niche - It Is the Next Business Battlefield

Every major economic era has been shaped by a defining infrastructure. The industrial age was built on factories, steel, and machines. The i...

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The Creator Economy Is Becoming an Education System

The Creator Economy Is Becoming an Education System

That model is no longer the only center of gravity. Over the last few years, a parallel education system has quietly emerged across the i...

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The Return of Tailoring: Why Structured Fashion Is Back After Years of Comfortwear

The Return of Tailoring: Why Structured Fashion Is Back After Years of Comfortwear

For nearly half a decade, fashion was shaped by comfort. The pandemic loosened silhouettes, softened dress codes, and turned elastic waistba...

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The Future of Sustainability Is Not Just Green -  It Is Human

The Future of Sustainability Is Not Just Green -  It Is Human

For too long, sustainability has been visually reduced to forests, oceans, wind turbines, solar panels, and recycling symbols.These images m...

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The End of Throwaway Culture: Why Circularity Is Becoming the New Luxury

The End of Throwaway Culture: Why Circularity Is Becoming the New Luxury

For decades, modern consumption was built on a simple formula: make more, sell more, use briefly, discard quickly, and repeat.It was conveni...

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Can Businesses Still Grow Without Breaking the Planet?

Can Businesses Still Grow Without Breaking the Planet?

For a long time, the world treated sustainability as a moral conversation. Companies spoke about it in annual reports, campaigns, pledges, a...

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The Met Gala Is No Longer About Fashion — It’s About Cultural Power

The Met Gala Is No Longer About Fashion — It’s About Cultural Power

There was a time when the Met Gala was simply a glamorous fundraiser for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It belonge...

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The Future of Taste in an Algorithmic World

The Future of Taste in an Algorithmic World

There was a time when taste was discovered slowly.You found music through a friend, films through a late-night television screening, books t...

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Sustainable Style: Fashion and the Conscious Consumer

Sustainable Style: Fashion and the Conscious Consumer

There was a time when fashion in the professional world was largely performative. It signaled status, hierarchy, and occasionally creativity...

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Always Online: How Digital Life Is Rewiring Human Behaviour

Always Online: How Digital Life Is Rewiring Human Behaviour

Over the past two decades, the internet has evolved from a tool we accessed occasionally into an environment we inhabit continuously. What w...

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Education Was Designed for the Industrial Age. The World Isn’t

Education Was Designed for the Industrial Age. The World Isn’t

Modern education is facing a strange contradiction.Never before has humanity had more access to information, technology, and opportunity. Ar...

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The Internship Economy: Are We Training Talent or Exploiting It?  

The Internship Economy: Are We Training Talent or Exploiting It?  

For decades, education followed a relatively predictable structure. Knowledge flowed from institutions to individuals. Universities certifie...

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The Death of the Degree? How Skills, AI, and Micro-Credentials Are Rewriting the Value of Education in 2026 

The Death of the Degree? How Skills, AI, and Micro-Credentials Are Rewriting the Value of Education in 2026 

In 2026, the most important story in higher education is not that the degree has vanished. It is that the degree has lost its monopoly. Rese...

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From Classrooms to Algorithms: How AI Is Quietly Becoming the World’s Most Influential Teacher

From Classrooms to Algorithms: How AI Is Quietly Becoming the World’s Most Influential Teacher

In 2026, the central question is no longer whether artificial intelligence belongs in education. It already does. The real question is wheth...

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Why Every Company Is Suddenly Becoming a Media Company

Why Every Company Is Suddenly Becoming a Media Company

There was a time when companies relied on advertising to capture attention.Today, attention itself has become the business model.Across indu...

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The Trust Recession: Why Consumers Believe Influencers More Than Corporations

The Trust Recession: Why Consumers Believe Influencers More Than Corporations

Trust Has Not Disappeared. It Has Changed HandsThe most important mistake businesses can make in 2026 is to think we are living through a si...

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The Death of Scale? Why Smaller, Smarter Companies Are Outperforming Corporate Giants in 2026

The Death of Scale? Why Smaller, Smarter Companies Are Outperforming Corporate Giants in 2026

If there is one business dogma worth retiring in 2026, it is the reflexive worship of scale.For most of the last half-century, size was trea...

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Growth at What Cost? The Quiet Shift from Hyper-Scaling to Sustainable Profitability

Growth at What Cost? The Quiet Shift from Hyper-Scaling to Sustainable Profitability

Until very recently, "growth at all costs" was Silicon Valley's anthem. Start-ups raised ever-larger funding rounds an...

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Are We Losing Depth? The Cultural Cost of Fast Content and Short Attention Spans

Are We Losing Depth? The Cultural Cost of Fast Content and Short Attention Spans

In a world where doomscrolling is commonplace and TikTok dominates discourse, it's easy to conclude that culture has turned into a shallow p...

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Why Seoul Became a Global Cultural Capital

Why Seoul Became a Global Cultural Capital

For decades, global cultural influence largely flowed through a predictable set of cities. Paris defined fashion. New York shaped media. Lon...

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The Return of the Human Hand: Why Culture Is Rejecting AI Perfection

The Return of the Human Hand: Why Culture Is Rejecting AI Perfection

For years, digital culture moved toward perfection. Photos became cleaner. Branding became flatter. Inter...

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