When I was a young and reckless foreign correspondent I had a sweary encounter with a prime minister which could have gone horribly wrong. It taught me to take care with language. The Caribbean island of Grenada had just been taken over by communist rebels in a Cuban-backed military coup.Continue Reading
CCTV footage shows officers seizing the dolls. Youtube/SWNS The landlady of a pub in Essex has been expressing bemusement about the complaints of “snowflakes” after her display of golliwog dolls attracted the attention of the county’s police – only for them to be told, reportedly by the home secretary SuellaContinue Reading
For the first time since the cold war, Moscow has accused a US journalist of espionage. Evan Gershkovich, a reporter with the Wall Street Journal, was arrested in Yekaterinburg on March 29 by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). The reporter, a Russia specialist, insists he was there to report onContinue Reading
If this polling has it right then just a quarter of American adults now a favourable view of Donald Trump and this really puts into question whether he has any chance at all of making a comeback. The images that have been widely circulated of his court appearance before EasterContinue Reading
News headlines tell you little about the realities of divorce for most couples Prostock-studio/Shutterstock It’s no wonder many people think divorce involves going to court, huge legal fees and decades of spousal payments, considering these are the cases that dominate our headlines. However, the kinds of divorce cases reported inContinue Reading
Alan Denney/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA As slurs go, the word “Paki” has a long, dark history in the UK. A video has emerged of the YouTuber, KSI, using the term frivolously – followed by a burst of raucous laughter by his peers. KSI has subsequently apologised. However, this has brought backContinue Reading
iSOMBOON/Shutterstock “I don’t listen to adults when it comes to this sort of thing”, a 17-year-old told me. We were discussing how digital technology affects his life, as part of a long-term project in the west of England that I carried out with colleagues to explore young people’s mental healthContinue Reading
Oleg Shakirov/Shutterstock Suppose you are in a pub with friends. You drink a few beers, have a good time, and head home. The following morning you realise your headache is milder than usual. You then discover that you were part of an experiment where the glasses at the pub wereContinue Reading
After 2,000 years of political and technical hitches, Italy says it’s finally ready to connect Sicily to the mainland.Continue Reading
Warning: this story contains graphic descriptions of violence. Pseudonyms are used to protect the interviewees’ identities. Angela had already been in the UK as an asylum seeker for nine years and four months when we interviewed her. She was still in a state of limbo, unsure whether asylum would beContinue Reading
