Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!â roars Michael Corleone in The Godfather: Part III. He wants to put his life of crime behind him and go... Read more »
Vladimir Putin exploited Donald Trumpâs âego and insecuritiesâ to exert an almost mesmeric hold over the former US president, who refused to entertain any negative evaluation of the autocratic Russian leader from... Read more »
Abandoned airports. Shipping containers. Squatted hotels. These are just three of the many unusual places that have housed refugees in the past decade. The story of international migration is often told through... Read more »
After four decades of reform and development, China is confronting a domestic waste crisis. As the world’s largest waste-generating nation, the World Economic Forum projects that by 2030, the volume of household... Read more »
After a case spurred by complaints on books containing the words “butt” and “fart” as well as touching on the topics of racism and LGBTQ+ identity, an appellate court has ruled that... Read more »
In August 2021, Britainâs last ambassador to Afghanistan, Sir Laurie Bristow, climbed on to a table holding a kitchen knife. He and a member of his security team had a small but... Read more »
While anxiety abounds in the old Cold War West that progress – whether political or economic – has been reversed, for citizens of former-socialist countries, murky temporal trajectories are nothing new. Grounded... Read more »
Never in living memory has the north of England felt so far removed from the economic and political power base of London. That the most – the only? – prominent northern accent... Read more »
In January 2002, during his State of the Union address, President George W Bush said that in “four short months” the US had “rallied a great coalition, captured, arrested and rid the... Read more »