Three quarters of Scots feel they have little or no influence over local services. A coalition of campaigners is seeking to change that.

“I’m glad to see corporate America standing with me and the other students of Parkland and everybody else,” he said, “because when we work together we can accomplish anything.”

The changing religious landscape in this historically Catholic country has not been good news for women, who live under one of the world’s harshest anti-abortion laws.

Those who control the creation and allocation of money are able to control every other aspect of society. Shouldn’t that be us?

This move signals the end of the Russian federal state’s social commitments. RU

End the exalted position of politics as something separate from an increasingly connected and savvy populace. Let them – us – take control.

 “I wanted a Germany that was hegemonic and efficient, not authoritarian and caught up in a European Ponzi scheme. That was in 2013.” Excerpt from the Munich Seminar.

In a summit welcomed by Washington and Pyongyang alike, the North Korean leader had an ace card.

Nationalisation should not be a mere palliative for private sector collapse, but a tool to bring about a fundamental rebalancing of wealth and power.

Major sporting events speak to people in the language of money, prestige and officialdom. But they can – and must – speak the language of culture, equality and solidarity. RU

Talking about sectarianism in Syria is like standing on the line of fire. How can we talk about sectarianism without perpetuating it? العربية

Labour’s Liam Byrne says former Legatum trade advisor’s influence over Brexit policymakers ‘beggars belief’

Will the World Cup which opens today be an orgy of petty-minded nationalism? Philosophy Football’s Mark Perryman doesn’t think so.

Economic crisis, western hostility and Venezuela's Presidential Election, as observed by a sympathetic election monitor.