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Sathnam Sanghera's Empireworld: How British imperialism shaped the globe
Following his seminal book Empireland, Times writer Sathnam Sanghera now looks at the legacy of colonialism for the billions of people Britain once r…
1 year, 11 months ago
Death row execution: Alabama's first suffocation
After trying - and failing - to kill him via lethal injection, Alabama is planning to execute death row inmate Kenneth Smith next week using an untes…
1 year, 11 months ago
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel
Three months into the war in Gaza, the conflict has reached a courtroom: the International Court of Justice in the Hague. South Africa says we are wi…
1 year, 11 months ago
How Mean Girls made ‘fetch’ happen
Twenty years after Mean Girls introduced Regina George and her pink-clad Plastics to cinema screens, the high-school Queen Bee is back in a new music…
1 year, 11 months ago
Who are the Houthis and will the airstrikes stop them?
Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthis began firing missiles into Israel shortly after the invasion of Gaza. But when the rebels started targeting commercial…
1 year, 11 months ago
Presidents, princes and sex tapes: What's in the Epstein files?
This month, thousands of court documents about Jeffrey Epstein were released, unredacted, for the first time. They include new names and allegations …
2 years ago
Could Taiwan’s election start a war?
Tomorrow, Taiwan heads to the polls. It’s the first election of a historic year, where more than half of the world’s population will vote. It could a…
2 years ago
The Post Office scandal: How a TV drama delivered justice
The Prime Minister has announced new legislation to quash the convictions of wrongly accused subpostmasters. It comes after a groundswell of interest…
2 years ago
If the economy’s doing better, why are the ‘vibes’ still off?
The American economy appears to be making a miraculous recovery from inflation and the pandemic. So why the bad economic vibes? Consumer sentiment is…
2 years ago
Why we ate our friends: The story of a plane crash
In 1972 a small plane with 45 souls on board crashed in the Andes mountains. Stranded for ten weeks in minus 30C, the survivors were eventually force…
2 years ago