Last August marked 20 years since the momentous referendum vote which resulted in East Timor’s independence from Indonesia. But how did we get here, two decades later? To begin with, Portugal used to trade with Timor hundreds of years ago...
What started in March as a weekend rally, was, by June, a movement one million strong. The first mass march that month was peaceful; a follow-up three days later was anything but. As projectiles rained down on police officers, they...
Just two words – “Yetnahaw Gaâ” – were enough to land him a prison cell. Scrawled in Algerian Arabic and held aloft, it is an expression now synonymous with the country’s desperate struggle for democracy: ‘they all must leave’. The...
From Theresa May to Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, a series of unelected officials have had their chance to shape the future of the UK. Now the Queen, who’s supposed to be little more than a figurehead, has the final...
Students from universities and schools in Hong Kong are to take part in a class boycott in September, following weeks of protests in the city against the Government’s planned extradition bill. The boycott follows the news that prominent pro-democracy campaigners...
Hong Kong’s current resistance to an increasingly authoritarian China is indicative of the Western World’s folly that began with President Nixon’s 1972 visit to China. The United States’ then-assumption that a diplomatic opening to China, and consequently the opening of...
The aftermath of the attacks in the US on September 11, 2001, heralded a new era, giving birth to the “war against terror”. Images of men clad in orange jumpsuits – hands bound behind their backs and their faces obscured...
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