The International
By Jude Holmes On 18th February, NASA celebrated a big win. After a seven-month voyage across the solar system, the Perseverance rover (lovingly nicknamed Percy) landed safely in the Jezero Crater. Percy’s nearest neighbour is the Curiosity Rover (a geologist, famous for singing happy birthday to itself), a mere 2,300 miles away. Armed with a […]
As part of an ongoing series focusing on food, The International is inviting writers to share a recipe that reminds them of home. This month, Sunna Coleman teaches us how to concoct a Spicy Saag Paneer – a hitherto closely guarded recipe of her mother. By Sunna Coleman Being very close with my mother – or ‘Ami’ as we lovingly call […]
By Sophie Nepali There can be no doubt that humanity is an extraordinary species. Fuelled in part by the process of globalisation, however, we have become somewhat destructive in nature. The depletion of natural resources to combat consumer capitalism has had a catastrophic impact on the environment and the society we live in today, locally […]
As part of a new series focusing on food, The International is inviting writers to share a recipe that reminds them of home. This month, Sophie Nepali teaches us how to serve up Choila – a go-to meal from Nepal. By Sophie Nepali As my own surname somewhat gives away, my family is from Kathmandu, […]
By Nikhil Bandlish Cigars, classic cars, Castro and ‘Communism’: What do they all have in common? Just under 100 miles south of Florida lies what was once the promising socialist nation-state of Cuba. We’ve all heard the stories. The lynchpin in the Cold War during the missile crisis and the Bay of Pigs, Cuba was flying […]
By Jack Ballinger Nearly ten years ago, the British people were asked if they would like to change the voting system that we’ve used since roughly 1884. It was the reigning champ: ‘First Past The Post’, versus the scrappy ‘Alternative Vote’. Surely this would be a contest for the ages. Well, in the end, only […]
This report was compiled by Rory Gannon A nation’s path to democracy is rarely smooth. Throughout history, newly independent countries have struggled to consolidate new governments. In 2015 Myanmar’s first free and fair elections were not eagerly embraced by the military that had held power in the country for over twenty years. The following election […]
By Nikhil Bandlish Amidst what has been one of the most tumultuous periods in recent political, social, and medical history, 2021 may be the year that planet Earth attempts to turn the page of what has undoubtedly been a testing chapter. For the Western world, the last few years may have been characterised by the […]
By Jude Holmes “It Was the Winter of Despair” “Now is the winter of our discontent/ Made glorious summer by this sun of York” are the famous opening lines of Shakespeare’s Richard III, probably written at the end of 1593. The year 1593 had started much as 2021, with an ominous rise in London plague […]
By Nikhil Bandlish With a warm climate, low cost of living, an abundance of untouched, uninhabited rainforest, and beautiful mountains and deserts, one could be forgiven for assuming that Bolivia is the embodiment of a modern-day natural oasis. However, beyond the surface of rural dirt-tracks and urban neoclassical architecture lies a nation with a fractured […]