Politics (Page 279)

Words influence the way we see the world. In 2015, we warned that the language used by the west to describe Russia’s armed intervention in Ukraine was a jumble of euphemism and understatement that failed to serve the public interest. The problem hasn’t gone away. Today there may be aContinue Reading

Since Imran Khan was ousted as prime minister of Pakistan on April 9, the future of the long disputed and war-torn Kashmir region, on the borders of India and Pakistan, is at the forefront of many minds. Khan had made little headway in resolving the Kashmir conflict, despite his ambitionContinue Reading

One of the last lines jailed Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny speaks in the eponymous new CNN documentary is a quote usually attributed to the 18th-century philosopher Edmund Burke: “The triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.” It is unclear whether Navalny sees Russian politics as aContinue Reading

It’s eight weeks since the Russian military rolled across the border into Ukraine, telling the world that this was just a “special military operation” aiming to free an oppressed people from what Vladimir Putin called a “gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis”. The character of this war on the UkrainianContinue Reading

As Russia shifts the focus of its “special military operation” in Ukraine to the Donbas region, there seems no end in sight to the fighting. Casualties on both sides are mounting. While Ukraine is able to call on its citizens to help defend their homeland from Russian aggression, Moscow’s abilityContinue Reading

Marmolejos / Shutterstock After two years of the pandemic, there is an understandable desire to “go back to normal”. Disabled people, having been particularly impacted by the pandemic, have described the removal of all COVID rules as a “kick in the teeth”. In the UK, between January and November 2020,Continue Reading

The home of businessman Seán Quinn has been searched by gardaí in Co Cavan. Gardaí investigating alleged criminal activity in Cavan and the wider border region went to the house in Ballyconnell on Wednesday. Officers carried out the search after a warrant was issued by a district court judge underContinue Reading