An exiled Azerbaijani rapper who uses his music to challenge his country’s dynastic leadership, a collective of Russian lawyers who seek to uphold the rule of law, an Afghan seeking to economically empower women through computer coding and a Honduran journalist who goes undercover to expose her country’s endemic corruption ...
“We are the puppets of the lemmings,” Markus Lemke tells me, straight-faced. I nod and sip my cup of coffee. I’ve been with Markus and his sister Melinda for an hour and am beginning to settle into their alternative universe. Along with business partner Rolf Nylinder they are the people ...
Julian Assange has lost his legal battle to walk free from the Ecuadorian embassy after a judge ruled he should still be charged over an outstanding UK arrest warrant. The Wikileaks founder has been in his Knightsbridge bolthole in central London since 2012 after rape and sexual assault allegations were ...
Winner of the regional UK & Ireland final of this year’s S.Pellegrino Young Chef competition, Killian Crowley is heavily inspired by Irish produce. At the finals held towards the end of last year, Killian’s signature dish – Turbot, Kohlrabi, Sea purslane – impressed judges and won him a place in ...
Lonely Britons are more likely to meet the love of their life at a social gathering than at work or through dating, a study found. Researchers polled 2,000 adults and found a quarter of married couples met on a night or day out with friends. A fifth met through work ...
In eyes of Guillermo del Toro, ‘monster’ is a relative term. So when Richard Jenkins’ Giles, our nominal narrator, tells us that The Shape of Water is a story “of love & loss, and the monster who tried to destroy it all,” it would be unwise to assume that the ...
Tory cuts to immigration staff mean they can’t cope with existing workload, let alone prepare for Brexit. Government refuses to show clarity over post Brexit immigration. 3 million EU born citizens still face unnecessary uncertainty. British businesses with EU employees unable to prepare. Austerity-hit immigration department regularly makes mistakes. EU ...
A Democrat candidate who has campaigned against lobbyists, especially oil lobbyists buying access to politicians in her area of West Virginia which has been heavily affected by fracking, was thrown out of a public hearing for attempting to detail some of the vast array of donations that lawmakers behind it ...
Why can’t Remainers just accept ‘they lost’, that it was a ‘democratic vote’, and just get on with their lives? Why can’t they just get with the programme? I’ll tell you. I'd consider myself a kind person. I've had some highs in my life, but it's definitely slapped me about ...