GarethWilley/Shutterstock Although vaccinations against COVID-19 have begun in the UK, the effects of the pandemic on the economy and society will continue to be felt for a long time. Rural communities, in particular, will be hit hard. The closure of local hubs such as pubs and community centres in ruralContinue Reading
India is going through yet another restive winter. Between 200,000 and 300,000 women, men and children are camping on the highways leading to the country’s capital Delhi. They have come from neighbouring provinces, particularly Punjab, but also Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. Meanwhile local agitations are being organised across theContinue Reading
A bust of Sophie Scholl. RyanHulin/Wikipedia, CC BY-SA A video from an anti-lockdown protest in Germany has gone viral after a protester compared herself to the anti-Nazi resister Sophie Scholl. Scholl was a 21-year-old student executed in 1943 for printing and spreading anti-fascist leaflets. She was part of a resistanceContinue Reading
There are several building blocks towards reducing menstruation stigma Will Oliver/EPA Pad by pad, efforts to challenge the stigma of menstruation are putting periods in the spotlight. The latest move comes from the Scottish parliament, which just passed a landmark bill to combat “period poverty”. Led by Labour MSP MonicaContinue Reading
Nobody has officially claimed responsibility for deploying the satellite-controlled machine-gun with “artificial intelligence” used to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in Tehran at the end of November. But you would get fairly short odds were you to bet on it being the Mossad, Israel’s aggressive – and notoriously inventiveContinue Reading
All is not looking rosy for Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s authoritarian president. Once feted for presiding over what was generally considered a regional success story, his stock is falling rapidly as the economic problems faced by his country pile up. In November, the inflation rate in the country soared toContinue Reading
artbesouro/Shutterstock Over the past nine months, the word “uncertainty” has cropped up time and time again across the news and social media worldwide. The pandemic has created uncertainty in nearly every aspect of daily life. This is not only down to worries over exposure to COVID-19 and access to medicalContinue Reading
Nobody has officially claimed responsibility for deploying the satellite-controlled machine-gun with “artificial intelligence” used to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in Tehran at the end of November. But you would get fairly short odds were you to take a bet on it being the Mossad, Israel’s aggressive – andContinue Reading
Andy Rain/EPA For the second time in 2020, the media spotlight has fallen on the deportation of a group of men to Jamaica, many of whom had lived in Britain for a substantial part of their lives. As with the Home Office’s deportation flight in February 2020, some of theseContinue Reading
Since becoming leader of the Labour party, Keir Starmer’s approach to the politics of Brexit has been a simple one: please everybody, we need to talk about something else. But the time may soon arrive when the topic can no longer be avoided. Should Boris Johnson secure a Brexit dealContinue Reading
