Editor’s note: Shortly after this piece was published, Rajiv Menon was granted a last-minute stay on his appeal. His case will now be heard in September. England prides itself on its legal system, ...
In the summer of 2026, the Chief Justice of India Surya Kant unwittingly triggered the launch of a powerful peoples’ movement when he referred to the country’s unemployed youth as cockroaches. Shortly ...
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At least 138 women pensioners have been killed in the UK where a man is the main suspect since 2020, an investigation by openDemocracy can reveal. Just under a fifth of women killed by men in the past ...
After a 23-year career at the BBC, award-winning broadcaster Nihal Arthanayake changed his mind about the institution's capacity for change. In this episode of Change My Mind, Nihal speaks candidly ...
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El jueves, el secretario de Estado de EEUU, Marco Rubio, organizó una reunión con representantes de 66 países del mundo. La agenda del encuentro era alertar sobre el “resurgimiento del terrorismo de e ...
Earlier this year, a conference was held in the European Parliament to discuss the dangers of nanoplastics. Such an event would not be unusual, were it not for its co-host: a “religious cult” that ...