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Palestine, Musk and BRICS: the issues dividing US and South Africa

25 April 2025 @ 11:12 am

Menzi Ndhlovu on the US's tense relationship with South Africa

The UK clamped down on migration. The LGBTIQ+ community was collateral

25 April 2025 @ 7:41 am

The Conservatives knew their immigration plan would disproportionately impact LGBTIQ+ people. They did it anyway

Wales’ prisons will keep failing as long as England controls its judiciary

24 April 2025 @ 10:09 am

Rising custodial deaths, self-harm and rampant racial disproportionality are being masked by lack of a devolved judiciary

Enforced disappearances: The systematic crime Mexico refuses to acknowledge

22 April 2025 @ 7:33 pm

Attacking those searching for missing loved ones is ‘particularly despicable’ politics, says activist Lisa Sánchez

Gaza faces increasingly bleak reality one month after Israel ended ceasefire

17 April 2025 @ 3:42 pm

Western states are still failing to put the pressure on Israel needed to end the bloodshed

Reform backers are importing the US’s ‘big money’ playbook to UK politics

17 April 2025 @ 1:18 pm

Great British PAC wants to unite the right. To do so, it hopes to Americanise UK politics with help of donors like Elon Musk

Trump’s tariff tantrums boost case for new financial architecture in Africa

16 April 2025 @ 10:13 am

While many countries in Africa are suffering fallout of US tariffs, this is a chance to reduce dollar dependency

‘A circus of horror’: The cruel visit to ‘staged’ extermination camp in Mexico

11 April 2025 @ 3:44 pm

Mothers hoped visit would offer answers about the disappeared. Instead, they say, it was a state-orchestrated spectacle

Populism's silver lining

10 April 2025 @ 11:12 am

Danny Sriskandarajah on the power of collective action

Trump’s tariffs are not unlike previous US plan that ended in disaster

9 April 2025 @ 9:44 am

The Project for the New American Century, launched 28 years ago, offers a warning for current Trumpian world order