Josh White / 19 Sep 2022
Capitalists Never Lie
Why Read The Financial Times
Above the entrance of Bracken House, sits the face of Winston Churchill, set in a gold sunburst on an astrological clock.(...)
Politics
Zhenia Perutska / 16 Sep 2022
Resisting Russia
Learning Anti-Colonialism in Ukraine
In school, we’d always have two different classes for Ukrainian and foreign literature.(...)
Wieland Hoban / 12 Sep 2022
A Palestinian Education
Farkha Festival Diary
Following a welcome ceremony on the evening of our arrival, the 27th annual Farkah Festival began.(...)
John Foster / 10 Sep 2022
The Irish Abyss
Truss and the Backstop
The Tories believe they’re the most consistent party in British politics.(...)
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 06 Sep 2022
Life Under Gorbachev
The End of the USSR
When Mikhail Gorbachev was appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR in 1985, I was studying Russian at university.(...)
Josh White / 05 Sep 2022
Race to the Bottom
The Liz Truss Plunger
If Prime Minister Liz Truss is the joke, Britain is the punchline.(...)
Wieland Hoban / 02 Sep 2022
Volunteering is Life
The 27th Farkha Festival
From 31 July to 7 August, the 27th annual Farkha Festival took place in the village of Farkha, in the occupied West Bank.(...)
Heather Allansdottir / 15 Aug 2022
Universitet Lessons
Russia After the Arab Spring
In 2015, I moved to Moscow to spend a year teaching human rights. I lasted five months. As my former students from that time are arrested for protesting the Ukrainian war, here are some reflections on what I learned about the evil of Putin and the kindness of Russians.(...)
Josh White / 08 Aug 2022
Old Europeans
Thinking With Borders
Not many newspapers begin life like The New European. (...)
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 01 Aug 2022
Life Under Thatcher
Working for the Iron Lady
It’s remarkable how candidates in the Tory leadership race have channelled Margaret Thatcher. Especially as they're barely old enough to have experienced her policies.(...)