Channelling the spirit of Monty Python, Father Ted and Oscar Wilde, the voice trolls the Brexit process with a tone that is whimsical, sometimes surreal and always pointed. “I dislike Brexit but, speaking as a border, I do admire its ability to comp...
The news in May 2017 that Taiwan was to legalise same-sex marriage was a watershed moment for Vivian Chen and Corrine Chiang, who could finally look forward to sharing legal guardianship of their daughter, Zola, now three. But 18 months on from the...
Be prepared. The great museums of Europe are about to see an invasion of former colonies demanding the return of their stuff. This week the governor of Easter Island, Tarita Alarcón Rapu, tearfully pleaded with the British Museum to have back her an...
It is barely 47 years old, not quite the size of Scotland, and buys nearly £250bn of British-made weapons in a good year. But, despite the long and often strong ties between the UK and the United Arab Emirates, the life sentence given this week to M...
William Hague has defended the controversial initiative he established with Angelina Jolie, describing it as having made “enormous progress” in raising awareness and breaking taboos around sexual violence in conflict. Set up by the former British fo...
A witness captures the moment attackers stormed the Chinese consulate in Karachi, killing two police officers. All three assailants were killed after an hour-long shootout. Police officials said the gunmen were able to enter the building, but no dip...
The British government is to invest £50m in an attempt to end female genital mutilation by 2030, claiming it is the single biggest investment to tackle the issue by an international donor. The money, announced on Friday, will go to grassroots progra...
Cuba has begun withdrawing 8,300 doctors working in some of the poorest regions of Brazil, prompting fears that indigenous villages, small towns and isolated rural communities could soon be left without medical care. The move came after Brazil’s far...
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It has been a year in which the GRU’s operations, from election hacking to novichok poisoning, have been uncovered and plastered on the front pages of western newspapers more often than the secretive military intelligence agency, or its Kremlin boss...
“Populism” as a term was rarely used in the 20th century; it was limited to US historians describing, in highly specific terms, the original agrarian populists of the mid-19th century. Latin American social scientists (often Marxists) focused it pri...
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s scheduled appearance at the G20 summit next week in Buenos Aires presents world leaders with a moment of truth they would rather avoid. Western powers such as the US, UK and France have been happy to keep up arms s...
Farooq Patel has lived his entire life in Bhendi Bazaar in a tiny two-room apartment with no toilet that he inherited from his family. Soon, the 52-year-old embroidery worker will get a bigger, brand-new home with modern-day comforts such as air con...
For over two decades photographer Peter Steinhauer documented the bamboo scaffolding and bright, tightly wrapped shapes of Hong Kong’s construction sites. His collection, Cocoons, is available from Powerhouse Peter Steinhauer Main image: Cherry Str...
The Irish President-elect Michael D Higgins has attended the Armistice Day centenary commemorations at Dublin’s Glasnevin Cemetery to pay tribute to the memory of the Irish men and women who died in the first world war. In his speech he said that th...