Politics (Page 393)

Nicole's/Shutterstock Parents, teachers and politicians are worried about the appeal of so-called “online misogyny influencers” to boys and young men. These influencers post content to thousands of followers in videos and podcasts, offering advice about relationships, mental health and wellbeing, and achieving material success and status. They are believed toContinue Reading

zefart/Shutterstock The series of scandals that has hit the UK’s biggest police force suggests longstanding and serious underlying problems. The newly published Casey review details these problems in depth, adding another stain to the Metropolitan police’s reputation. The report found that institutional misogyny, racism and homophobia are rampant throughout theContinue Reading

The heirs to two of the most violent revolutions in modern history shook hands and took stock of their “comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era”, at a recent meeting in Moscow. Many in the west have puzzled over this relationship between Chinese Communist Party chairman Xi JinpingContinue Reading

On March 26 1973, the London Stock Exchange admitted its first female members. This followed years of resistance, with London trailing behind other smaller exchanges around the UK. That women had been excluded for so long was not only due to institutional misogyny. Research has shown how finance was imaginedContinue Reading

Two people have been arrested in connection to the 1984 killing of a baby in Co Kerry. They are suspected of murder. An Garda Síochána said on Thursday that a man (60s) and woman (50s) were being held at stations in the south of country under Section 4 of theContinue Reading

The illegal migration bill is the government’s latest proposal to tackle the rise in small boat Channel crossings, by detaining and removing anyone who arrives in the UK without valid permission to enter. The government hopes the bill, currently in committee stage in the House of Commons, will deter migrantsContinue Reading

Marking the ninth anniversary of his illegal annexation of Crimea, Russian president Vladimir Putin visited the occupied Ukrainian peninsula on March 18. His visit came a day after the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague issued an arrest warrant against him. Putin and his children’s commissioner, Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova,Continue Reading

Alamy/Xinhua All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real condition of life and his relations with his kind. So wrote Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto. They were talking about howContinue Reading