Politics

Israel and Gaza show us that humanity and compassion are among the casualties of war

Growing up amidst conflict and turmoil, it is easy to normalise living under threat - but we should guard against dehumanising the other side

Andrew Bridgen’s debate on Covid vaccine deaths: skewed statistics, but no substance

Andrew Bridgen MP promised an honest parliamentary debate on excess deaths since the Covid vaccine rollout - what he gave us was clearly not that

The UK government’s Ascension Island plan for asylum seekers is utterly preposterous

Besides being obviously callous, the government's repeated threats to send asylum seekers to Ascension Island are deeply unserious and completely unworkable

Beware the book ban: schools and libraries are a battleground in the culture war

Moral panics and culture war point-scoring are driving book bans in the US - and, given America's culture dominance, around the rest of the world too

Definitions matter – say what you mean, and mean the agreed-upon definitions

If we cannot agree on definitions of what words mean, we will never agree about the ideas and concepts those words describe.

In Turkey, conspiracy theories about the Peace Treaty of Lausanne run riot

Conspiracy theories about the Treaty of Lausanne and its implications for Turkish sovereignty are common in Turkey, and are being weaponised by cynical political movements

January 8th, and the insurrectionist riot provoked by Bolsonaro and the Brazilian army

When Bolsonaro supporters stormed Brazilian parliament on January 8th, the attack was merely the culmination of years of lies and provocation from the former President and the army

Institute Question of Science in Brazil: from fighting pseudoscience to advising governments

IQC - born in response to Bolsanaro and forged in the fight against COVID-19 pseudoscience - aims to establish its permanent place in post-Bolsanaro Brazil
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