Do detention companies deliberately escalate tensions so they can extract more money from governments? Bart Denaro, Antony Loewenstein, Ramesh Fernandez and Brynn O'Brien shine a light on a thriving trade in human misery.
At the weekend police fired teargas at demonstrators in Istanbul, attempting to enter Taksim Square to mark the anniversary of the Gezi Park protests—another battle in the struggle for rights and freedoms in Turkey
If madness is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome, the authors of Thailand’s twelfth coup since the absolute monarchy have yet to learn from Einstein’s aphorism.
Regardless of the regime's record of arbitrary arrest and torture, the UK Home Office is pursuing the deportation of a 19 year old democracy protestor back to the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Manufacturers aim to reap maximum profit in the minimal time before it is banned, so poorly developed NPS are thrown on the market in vast quantities with little regard to their effects. Meanwhile, prohibition simply forces a black market.
Last Summer we published a piece about the lives of lone parents that provoked an extraordinary response. One parent who made contact with author Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi was Angela:
The UK takes a relaxed and supportive attitude to elite shooters — even though legally-held firearms are used time and again to murder and maim
While increasing regulation and manipulation are restricting Russia’s online space, activists are still finding innovative ways to use it to uncover corruption, such as a site uncovering plagiarism among Russian politicians.
“I see people walking around with their mum and dad and I can’t even talk to my family.” A child flees Afghanistan for the UK. What happens next?
In ten years, the number of active Russian internet users has leapt from 3% to 48% of the population, and counting. The government reacted by introducing a register of blacklisted sites. But some users are fighting back. на русском языке
A British composer and educator asks whether individual effort can really counter structural privilege in the long run.
Independence could liberate Scotland to lead change that benefits all who live in these islands.
