Footballer and food poverty campaigner Marcus Rashford has rebuked Conservative MP Kevin Hollinrake on Twitter for suggesting that parents who need help to feed their children are failing in their responsibilities. Children growing up in poverty today recognise it is their parents’ duty to make sure they are fed adequately.Continue Reading
In spiritual warfare, the battle against demons is constant. Kotroz/Shutterstock Are demons active forces in American life and politics? That is what a large number of evangelicals in the US believe and are increasingly vocal about. Since the 1980s, growing numbers of evangelicals have given the fight against demons aContinue Reading
Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, has led a volley of warnings by senior American politicians that the UK government should not undo the Brexit withdrawal agreement it has signed with the European Union. Pelosi stated: If the UK violates its international agreements and Brexit underminesContinue Reading
Since India overtook Brazil in September to become the country with the second largest number of coronavirus cases in the world (after the US), the response of the government of Narendra Modi has come under even tighter scrutiny. In late March, Prime Minister Modi announced the formation of a specialContinue Reading
It’s not every day that the speaker of the US House of Representative gets involved in UK politics. But that happened almost immediately after the UK government announced a plan to Westminster reinterpret the Brexit arrangements it has for Northern Ireland, just months after it signed a deal with theContinue Reading
Fires at a reception centre for asylum seekers on the Greek island of Lesbos have left thousands of people without shelter. Around 13,000 people – including those from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and west Africa – lived at the Moria Reception and Identification Centre (RIC) in a space intended for justContinue Reading
Too many children are going missing from accommodations. Penn/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Across the UK, thousands of children are living in unregulated accommodations, designed to help them transition from living in care to an independent life as adults. But a lack of scrutiny means many children under 18 and in theContinue Reading
5D Media/Shutterstock Skin and hair can be integral to a young black person’s sense of self. Yet in the UK, black children and young people face discrimination about their bodies. It’s not just schools sending black children home because their hair is deemed contrary to uniform codes. The importance ofContinue Reading
Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution was a defining event that changed how we think about the relationship between religion and modernity. Ayatollah Khomeini’s mass mobilisation of Islam showed that modernisation by no means implies a linear process of religious decline. Reliable large-scale data on Iranians’ post-revolutionary religious beliefs, however, has alwaysContinue Reading
Vladimir Putin’s intelligence and security organs have used a variety of lethal ways over the past few decades to dispatch those who oppose him or the Russian state – an increasingly difficult line to draw. These murders and attempted murders are often theatrical and laced with morbid messaging. The recentContinue Reading
