Locator map of Kazakhstan showing Russia, China and its neighbouring republics.

Vliadimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine has put pressure on the leadership of neighbouring Kazakhstan, which only two months ago hosted Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) troops on its soil. The country’s president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, turned to Putin for military help in January when his rivals hijacked peaceful protestsContinue Reading

Black people are often associated with deviance – but I never understood the true impact until I was racially profiled

melitas/Shutterstock The horrifying experience of Child Q, a 15-year-old girl who was subjected to a strip search by police officers in her school in Hackney, London, is a harrowing example of how British society associates Blackness with deviant behaviour. The subsequent child safeguarding review into Child Q’s case has concludedContinue Reading

COVID vaccines: why second boosters are being offered to vulnerable people in the UK – but not young and healthy people yet

nednapa/Shutterstock Until recently, the UK government limited a fourth dose of the COVID vaccine to people with severely weakened immune systems over the age of 16. But, following a resurgence of COVID cases in the UK, the government has followed some other countries such as Israel, Germany and Sweden, andContinue Reading