Jo Finch, University of East London and Janet Hoskin, University of East London When it comes to people with learning disabilities and COVID-19, the statistics are damning. In the UK, people with...
The first shipment of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, landed in South Africa on 1 February. This was a moment of brilliant hope. However, a shameful...
In the era of a new Cold War, the internet is facing fragmentation, which means that bans, censorship and limitations seem to be inevitable. Russia has already started throttling Twitter’s...
Migration phenomena have been widely studied in recent years because of the impact these movements have on societies. They represent changes in culture, economy, public services and security. Many...
As the Covid-19 vaccine rollout gets underway here in the hard-hit US, chaos continues to reign. Down in go-it-alone Texas - yes, that state with its own standalone, cheap energy-providing electrical...
The inauguration of Joe Biden as 46th President of the United States promises a more competent and less contentious approach to foreign affairs than was the case with his predecessor Donald Trump....
Some administrations hide or minimize problems and divert the public's attention in a direction they prefer. But measures taken to gain public sympathy and distract from ineffective / late responses...
Over a fifth of the UK population, or 7 million people, are disabled. As an autistic person who struggles with fluctuating mental health, I’m one of those 7 million. Disabled people are a diverse...
The latest rocket attack against the U.S. troop base in Iraqi Kurdistan’s capital Erbil was another worrying sign that the security and stability that its residents have touted over the years is...
Democracy is in crisis around the world, and nowhere is that more visible than in Central Asia – a region that is facing the rise of the populist authoritarians. For major global and regional...
