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A shopkeeper in Dushanbe with his collection of Soviet paraphernalia for sale.

11 Jun 2022 7 minute read

The dragon and the bear on the roof of the world

Cash-strapped but strategically important, Tajikistan is undergoing rapid change with its future increasingly being shaped...

Unstoppable: Celebrating Pride in central Istanbul on 30 June 2019, despite the ban on the event. MURAD SEZER/REUTERS/ALAMY

10 Jun 2022 7 minute read

‘As long as the world keeps running, we’ll be here’

Branded as terrorists by President Erdoğan’s hardline regime, LGBTQI+ people in Turkey are finding ways to express...

9 Jun 2022 3 minute read

What if…we said ‘no’ to concrete?

The world is turning grey as more and more concrete is poured. Vanessa Baird posits an alternative.

6 Jun 2022 3 minute read

The alternative film review

Malcolm Lewis on two hidden gems of British cinema.

4 May 2022 3 minute read

Spotlight: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia pushes back against the stereotypes associated with Latin American culture. By Graeme...

Various items dropping into an item of machinery to be mixed together. The items include cash notes, a Conservative Party rossette and a pram

3 May 2022 23 minute read

The politics of futility

Our deep desire for change is continually thwarted by the limiting political choices on offer. Political theorist and...

Illustraion of a woman reading in the dark in a park

2 May 2022 3 minute read

Letter from Buenos Aires: the big blackout

Being forced to go without electricity sparks thoughts about living differently for Virginia Tognola.

A woman in protective clothing kneels down and searches for explosive ordnance

1 May 2022 4 minute read

Feel the fear and carry on

In Iraq a growing number of women are now doing the dangerous work of removing landmines – previously a male preserve....

1 May 2022 1 minute read

How we stop Big Oil

If you believed the greenwash you might think the world’s corporates were on the brink of the change needed to save our...

Protesters march with a banner that reads: 'Disarm, defund, abolish' in red capital letters

28 Apr 2022 3 minute read

10 steps towards prison abolition

A world without incarceration and police may seem a long way off, but there are plenty of things we can change on the way....

Shut out – Too many children are young people are being discarded by England’s education system.IEVGEN CHABANOV/ALAMY

27 Apr 2022 8 minute read

Abandoned: Abolition in education

England’s schools funnel its most marginalized young people towards the criminal justice system, writes Zahra Bei...

26 Apr 2022 6 minute read

Feminists challenge inaction at UN summit

Conservative anti-rights groups, and the failure of rich nations to take responsibility for climate change, threatened to...

Jessie jokes with his dad. Jessie wrote to Briarpatch: ‘Growing up, my dad was in prison. When I got a life sentence, he changed his life and stayed out and has been my support. This picture is me mimicking my nieces, who pull on his beard – it’s something I never got to do as a kid...’ JESSIE MILO

25 Apr 2022 5 minute read

Healed people heal people

Writing from a Californian prison, Jessie Milo sets out his vision for a more caring society.

Through Abraço Campeão, Alan Duarte works with young people to see a future amid the pressure of constant violence and police raids. JOSIANE SANTANA

25 Apr 2022 7 minute read

So, what’s the alternative?

Community-based initiatives are helping keep people safe where the police fail. Lucilla Harrell and...

21 Apr 2022 3 minute read

Agony uncle: ‘My friend thinks she is an ethical tax dodger’

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter...

20 Apr 2022 3 minute read

Hall of infamy: Joe Manchin

The US Republicans’ favourite democrat.

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