If a government minister declares a major incident, you imagine something life-changing and devastating has happened. A bomb has gone off or a train has derailed, a coach has crashed or people have...
As the disaster of capitalism and capitalism-driven climate change fuels larger and more devastating ecological disasters, such as monstrous hurricanes and record breaking wildfires, the need for...
This time last week, BBC TV was full of celebrities, news readers, pop stars and actors performing feats and making general fools of themselves to raise money for Children in Need, a charity telethon...
Over the past three weeks, Turkey has launched a series of cross-border artillery bombardments against the U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), the foremost fighting-force...
On the morning of September 8, Iran, in a truly unprecedented move, fired seven Fateh-110 short-range ballistic missiles into neighbouring Iraqi Kurdistan. The target was the headquarters of Iranian...
On August 3, 2016, I accompanied some displaced Yezidi victims of the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group back to the ruins of their city, Sinjar, where they demonstrated against their continued...
Imagine for a moment that you live in a country with too many people and too little infrastructure. A large city might have better medical care, but you don't live in a large city. You don't even...
I’ve recently got very into eating yoghurt. It’s fruity and fresh and tasty and I can’t believe I didn’t eat any for years, but they were so associated with diet culture that I couldn’t...
Attacks against the Roma community have become disturbingly common in Ukraine since the start of 2018. On Saturday 23rd June, a group of young people stormed into a Roma camp in the city of Lviv in...
Look, I’m just saying. I’ve seen “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” enough times. That movie’s shoulder-pad game was a bit too strong, but still. Hear me out, OK? Harry Potter...
