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Submarines and rainbow families
This week, Katy’s plunging into the depths of the French Submarine Saga and Dominic’s delving into some tentatively good developments for LGBTQ paren…
4 years, 9 months ago
The Belarus solidarity algorithm
A year into the protest movement in Belarus, what are things like on the ground? This week we talk to the poet Hanna Komar about her own experience i…
4 years, 9 months ago
Is Friday the new Saturday?
We're back from our summer break with an enticing idea: what would happen if we only worked four days a week? Far from spelling economic disaster, th…
4 years, 9 months ago
Europe’s next illiberal democracy?
Slovenia, aka Katy's favourite country, is increasingly drawing comparisons with Hungary and Poland when it comes to the state of its democracy. Can …
4 years, 11 months ago
Bread Week
Few people talk about bread in such magical terms as Apollonia Poilâne. This week we speak to the head of one of France's most prestigious bakeries a…
4 years, 11 months ago
Denisa
We tend to talk about freedom of movement within the EU as an abstract concept. In reality, moving to a new place involves a million little moments o…
5 years ago
The women who built Europe
Streets, cities, train stations: across the continent, they're likely to be named after men. What if the women who shaped Europe were given the recog…
5 years ago
The plastics law, revisited
A whole bunch of plastic objects are about to become illegal across the European Union: everything from coffee stirrers to straws and cotton buds. As…
5 years ago
The best rainy city in the world
Jens Thoms Ivarsson has one of this continent's most fascinating jobs: chief "rain man" for the city of Gothenburg. We chat to the creative director …
5 years ago
Thinker, Plaintiff, Merkel, Spy
This week, a murky spying scandal and a huge climate lawsuit. It seems that our American friends may have been using Denmark's internet cables to spy…
5 years, 1 month ago