India

“Hope Is a Muscle”: Neha Bora on her 23 day hunger strike at India’s ‘Cockroach Protests’

The Cockroach protests suggest Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s regime has lost its grip on the public imagination.

By Aman Sethi

/ 24 Jul 2026

Labour

Meet Burnham’s new cabinet, much like the old one

Can a line-up of familiar faces deliver the change that the UK needs?

By Ethan Shone

/ 24 Jul 2026

AI agents are nudging pregnant women to anti-abortion sources

By Carlotta Dotto

/ 24 Jul 2026

AI agents are nudging pregnant women to anti-abortion sources

Gaza

The Gaza deadlock: Why peace remains out of reach

By Paul Rogers

/ 23 Jul 2026

The Gaza deadlock: Why peace remains out of reach

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Afghanistan

Inside the deadly collapse of maternity care in Afghanistan

Amid USAID cuts and Taliban restrictions, we find clinics closing, midwives disappearing, and women dying

By Azada Azada*, Atia FarAzar*, Rad Radan* and Khadija Haidary

/ 23 Jul 2026

Morocco

Morocco’s World Cup dream fuels a new generation of protest

Forty years after the Bread Revolution, inflation and state crackdowns are again leading young activists into the streets

By Sophia Thomas

/ 22 Jul 2026

The UK can’t just firefight its way through a fractured world

Andy Burnham’s government has a chance to move from crisis management to global leadership. It must be bold

By Danny Sriskandarajah

/ 17 Jul 2026

The UK can’t just firefight its way through a fractured world

The government knows the real climate threat. Why is it hiding it?

For months, ministers have refused to publish a report on how climate crisis will affect the UK. Burnham must release it

By Paul Rogers

/ 17 Jul 2026

The government knows the real climate threat. Why is it hiding it?

AI needs human hands. Indian workers fought back

In Delhi’s factories, labourers are resisting efforts to train their robot replacements on the most human of actions

By Anumeha Yadav

/ 17 Jul 2026

AI needs human hands. Indian workers fought back

You cannot demand integration while building an asylum system on insecurity

Burnham’s vote for immigration reforms was worrying – his government must not push ahead with inherited asylum plans

By Amina Khanom

/ 15 Jul 2026

You cannot demand integration while building an asylum system on insecurity

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Featured Podcast 🎧

This is the first episode of our new narrative non-fiction podcast, How to Find Queer Elders that follows the life-affirming journey of Awo Dufie, a 23 year-old trans woman from Ghana, in her quest to find queer elders at a time when LGBTQI lives across Africa are violently rendered invisible.