The Green MP for Brighton Pavilion in the U.K’s East Sussex and her party’s only MP, Caroline Lucas, has written an open letter to a cross-party group republished in today’s The Guardian, callin…
Donald Trump: Video games, internet & mental illness – not guns – to blame for mass shootings
The US President Donald Trump says the cause of the mass shootings over the weekend was not guns, but “the glorification of violence” and video games. Trump also blamed the internet and mental illness…
29 Americans killed in two mass shootings in 14 hours
Within 14 hours, 29 innocent Americans were killed, and at least 52 injured, in two separate mass shootings over the weekend. On Saturday morning, 20 people were killed in a shopping centre in El Paso…
Boris Johnson by numbers: the next UK prime minister’s career summed up
Chris Stafford, University of Nottingham Boris Johnson’s ascension to the job of British prime minister is the culmination of years of scheming and plotting. His buffoonish exterior hides a calculatin…
Ursula von der Leyen elected to head European Commission
The former German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen has been elected as the next EU Commission president, the first female to hold the position, in a secret ballot. Despite not initially even bein…
Four women, and the fight against Donald Trump’s racism
“I am the least racist person you’ve ever met,” Trump has said in the past, on more than a few occasions. It appears the President of the US does not understand the term at all. On Monday, he called H…
‘You’re excluding people’: Megan Rapinoe’s powerful message to Donald Trump
When CNN host Anderson Cooper asked what message she had for the US President, Megan Rapinoe barely hesitated. The co-captain of the World Cup winning US soccer team Megan Rapinoe looked straight down…
Hong Kong Bill: Not really ‘dead’ as claimed by Carrie Lam
On Tuesday this week, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced the controversial Extradition Bill ‘dead’. The Bill, which has sparked extraordinary protests for over a month, proposed criminal…
‘Act. Do something’: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez & Greta Thunberg talk activism, climate and hope
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Greta Thunberg are visible, powerful and passionate, particularly on the subject of climate. The pair, having never met before and living on different continents, r…
Where art thou? Women at G20 remain a ridiculous rarity
The saying goes that a picture paints a thousand words but, really, the pictures from the annual G20 Summit, held in Japan this year, paint a picture that can be summed up with far fewer than a thousa…