As we mark the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, it is important to reflect on the legacy that event – and the “war on terror” more broadly – has had for the way news media cover terrorism. Though we should be clear that terrorism as we define itContinue Reading
Aiming to demystify STEM subjects – and bring much-needed diversity to the field – Anna Lytical helps coders get to grips with tricky conceptsContinue Reading
A picture of what possibly could have been on Mossie O’Sullivan’s mind in the run-up to murdering his family in rural Kerry earlier this week has slowly begun to emerge. As the Irish Examiner report, weeks before the 63-year-old killed his long-term partner Eileen, 56, and his son Jamie, 24,Continue Reading
Luke Pollard MP has called on the government to recognise the service personnel who took part in the evacuation of Afghanistan with service medals. More than 1,000 UK personnel took part in Operation Pitting, which airlifted 15,000 people fleeing oppression and persecution to safety as the country fell toContinue Reading
Responding to the Prime Minister’s announcement on health and social care, Luke Pollard MP said: “There has been a real health and social care crisis for many years in Plymouth. Even before the pandemic waiting lists were spiralling beyond two million people with more people waiting longer and longer inContinue Reading
In October 2001, nearly one month after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, a US Air Force pilot made history as the first person to conduct a lethal strike with a modern drone – the Predator. In the months and years following that first strike, the droneContinue Reading
In the months after the 9/11 attack, which killed thousands of people and cost US$40 billion (£29 billion) in damages, the shock at the tower collapse gave way to the monstrous scale of the rescue and clean-up operation in New York. Amid the destruction, an improvised team of volunteers, firefighters,Continue Reading
PA Images /Alamy Boris Johnson has unveiled plans for a £12 billion-a-year tax rise from April 2022, to fund social care reform in England and to tackle the NHS’s COVID-induced backlog of cases. Demand for care – from short-term needs to long-term support – is rising and levels of unmetContinue Reading
Unsurprisingly, the Taliban’s rapid takeover of power across Afghanistan has prompted headlines about a renewed “civil war”. This is misleading, however. “Civil war” implies a situation where an insurgent movement is taking on a ruling government. But in 2001, it was not just the US-backed Northern Alliance that removed theContinue Reading
In the press conferences that have followed the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, the group has projected a changed image. Its spokesmen have attempted to distance this Taliban from the legacy of brutal force and violent oppression of women and ethnic minorities that characterised their 1990s regime, instead emphasising their concernContinue Reading
