Social Issues
Life in the (too) fast lane
(4 minute read) Monica Sharp says her native USA needs to change to become more humane.
COP26: it’s time to face the facts
(4 minute read) John Arnold discusses the upcoming COP26 conference and calls for a united front to starve off catastrophe.
When life means life
(6 minute read) Francesco Ciampa tells a story of rebirth from behind bars in one of Italy’s toughest prisons.
The walls are crumbling … but oh so slowly
(7 minute read) Tribal enmity still stalks the streets of Northern Ireland, but Maddy Fry finds signs of a less fraught future on the horizon.
A first-time father in a post-pandemic world
(2 minute read) Luca La Monica laments the lack of support for new dads.
The essential right to be objectionable
(7 minute read) Edward Kendall urges an examination of conscience to establish whether we are really as open-minded as we like to think we are.
Rewriting the history books
(7 minute read) Maddy Fry examines how the efforts of a little known group of women have contributed to keeping racism alive in the southern US.
Tribalism alert
(3 minute read) Dennis Relojo-Howell looks at how the cancer of tribalism is weakening our democracy, our harmony and our humanity.
Where is the international outrage as Myanmar burns?
(4 minute read) World leaders are silent or impotent as barbaric generals lead the country to a humanitarian catastrophe, says Benedict Rogers.
Painting the unseen
(4 minute read) Lisa Fraser meets artist James Earley whose portraits of people living on the edge of society are making waves.
