These are strange times and COVID-19 is frightening many. We are being told to stay at home and we look in awe as medical professionals and other essential workers somehow keep going. Today, on...
A United Nations (UN) panel has, for the first time, accused Russia of being responsible for war crimes for indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas, it was revealed on 2 March. The UN report from...
Often, success and failure in school are determined by a number or a letter on a paper filled with ticks and crosses. This piece of paper would then determine your reward or punishment, and...
“I want to live alone in the desert I want to be like Georgia O'Keefe I want to live on the Upper East Side And never go down in the street” — Warren Zevon It’s bizarre to be writing a...
At a time of great health vulnerability, COVID-19 arrived in Venezuela, where hospitals are collapsed, there is a shortage of medicines and serious problems with basic services such as water and...
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Welcome to our series of Podcast Showcases, where we share podcasts with you in the words of the podcasters themselves. This week, we feature Feminist Book Club. Sum up your podcast in three...
In what will probably be the top story in Irish politics this year, Sinn Fein, the oldest and most controversial political party in Ireland, scored an enormous upset in the 2020 general election,...
Turns out there is a magic money tree after all, or perhaps new Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been delving down the back of a really big sofa somewhere in the Treasury building. Austerity, the watchword...
KAMPALA, UGANDA- A group of about five men pushing wooden wheelbarrows full of garbage to an illegal dumping site in a Kampala suburb got into a scuffle with the landowner and their wheelbarrows were...
