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The tyre scandal
Every year the UK produces around 50 million tyres for disposal. They are supposed to be sent for recycling. Instead, big money is being made by dive…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
No, there isn’t a ‘white genocide’ in South Africa
On 12 May, 59 Afrikaners arrived in Washington to receive “refugee” status. At a press conference, President Trump said he had acted because Afrikane…
9 months ago
Balochistan - the women of the vanished
In the last two decades thousands of men have disappeared in Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest region. Activists and some of their families accuse the …
9 months ago
Auntie Flo: Making plants dance
Brian D’Souza, aka Auntie Flo, is a Scottish musician, DJ and sound recordist who has played at some of the biggest festivals and clubs around the wo…
9 months ago
Why does Moldova matter to Putin?
Moldova is a country torn between pro-Western and pro-Russian factions. In September this year, Moldovans will vote for a new leadership, and pro-Eur…
9 months ago
How life is changing in Syria
For well over a decade, civil war blighted the lives of Syrians, as rebel forces battled against former President Bashar al-Assad and his brutal regi…
9 months ago
The future of the Alawites
In the wake of the Assad regime’s fall in Syria, thousands of Alawites, a minority Shia sect historically linked to the former regime, have fled to L…
9 months ago
The Global Jigsaw: Netanyahu’s media squeeze
The Israeli government’s push to transform the media landscape has been described by critics as a “hostile takeover” that poses a threat to press fre…
9 months ago
Russian informers: Hunting the enemy within
Informers are playing a key role in helping the Russian government silence dissent, now one victim has turned detective to uncover their persecutor’s…
9 months, 1 week ago
Assignment: What future for Assad’s army?
The former rebels who now rule Syria dismantled the old regime’s security forces as soon as they came to power last December. Overnight, half a milli…
9 months, 1 week ago