The International
By Jude Holmes The UK just became the world’s largest open-air fat camp, with compulsory attendance. Certain foods will no longer be eligible for special offers, sugar taxes are being re-evaluated and tightened, and, from next year, your doctor will receive money for referring you to weight loss plans. While we wait for this initiative […]
By Loui Marchant In recent years, Chinese internment policies in Xinjiang have made headlines around the world. The region has a long and complicated history with the Chinese Government, characterised by violence, mistrust and oppression. And yet, what the international community knows about the region is limited by restrictions on independent observers. Careful reporting and […]
By Joseph Eyre At the beginning of July, first minister Nicola Sturgeon and prime minister Boris Johnson engaged in a very public disagreement over whether or not there is a border between Scotland and England. Trivial though it may seem, this is just one of the many issues resulting from an increasingly disunited Union built […]
By Loui Marchant Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, human rights groups were warning of the humanitarian disaster unfolding in refugee camps on the Aegean islands. For much of the past decade, the Greek territory has been at the epicentre of the ongoing European refugee crisis. At the close of 2019, a series of horrifying reports […]
By Jude Holmes In a world consumed with the daily threat of infection rates and the hunt for disease control solutions, technology has come in to save the day. Drones delivered supplies to Scottish Isles, around half of all NHS medical appointments took place by phone (compared to 14% pre-lockdown), and over 750,000 people signed […]
This report was compiled by Joseph Eyre. You can find Joseph on Twitter here. “I call it the super-duper missile,” bragged Trump in May at a White House ceremony for the unveiling of the United States Space Force’s new flag. As Chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman has confirmed, Trump was referring to a hypersonic missile currently […]
By Sophie Nepali Sitting uncomfortably between the titans of India and China, it’s easy to see why Nepal has earned the unofficial nickname of ‘the yam between two boulders’. As a result of the geographical reality handed to it, Nepal must delicately balance itself to uphold diplomacy between both countries. Therefore Nepal’s geographical positioning, which […]
This report was compiled by Joseph Eyre. You can find Joseph on Twitter here. For Houston Chronicle reporter Mike Glenn, it seemed an ordinary enough assignment. On a bright summer morning in 2016, the journalist headed to his city’s Islamic Da’wah Center to cover a protest organised by a Facebook group named ‘The Heart of […]
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Almost to this day four years ago, Hong Kong’s police were dragging away the last protesters and tearing down the final remnants of what became known as the Umbrella Movement. The mass protests calling for democracy, symbolised by a yellow umbrella, spontaneously erupted […]