“When we pass reforms we have to go through death valley,” said France’s Emmanuel Macron earlier this month. A frank take – if a little melodramatic – on his government’s woes of late. Given the size and ferocity of the...
Gazing out over Subic Bay one morning last month, onlookers will have witnessed a turning of the tide. Before them was a behemoth ship – the M/V Bavaria cargo vessel – chugging away from the Filipino coast. On board were...
The first was on January 3rd. She was fifteen, and died in her hometown in Queensland. Less than a week later, three more girls had passed away, each in a different corner of the giant landmass. January 11th saw a...
With a tear in her eye, last month Britain’s Theresa May brought down the flag on her chequered premiership. The UK’s soon-to-be former prime minister had tried, tried and tried again to win support for her much derided Brexit deal...
In the eyes of the world, her fight for democracy echoed that of Mandela and Gandhi. Surprising then that Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar, should find herself shoulder-to-shoulder with Hungary’s Victor Orbán, arguably Europe’s most undemocratic ruler....
The usually bustling streets of Bamenda, capital of Cameroon’s North West region, are deserted. It’s a Monday, and local separatist forces have enforced their weekly closure of schools, businesses and public offices. Any breaching the ban face retribution from militia...
“Relationships, aspirations, sparkle” reads the sign outside Anderton Park School in the English city of Birmingham. The words encapsulate the school’s ethos, and are to the outside eye completely harmless. But to those waving signs and chanting slogans opposite the...
In a campaign that upended the established political system, gags came easy for Ukraine’s president-elect. He is, after all, a comedian. But as Volodymyr Zelensky looks beyond his momentus election victory, he’ll know punchline prowess stands for little. Beset with...
Justice, critics say, is the latest casualty in America’s Afghan war. It wasn’t lost on the streets of Kabul or the scorched sands of Helmand Province however – but in the courtrooms of the Hague. The International Criminal Court (ICC)...
Adam Shay loved to paint, just like Karen Goodwin. They even received an award at the same invitational art show, albeit 21 years apart. A mutual acquaintance, a former brother-in-law, is another uncanny connection between the two. And then there...
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