On Sunday 14 March, British-Iranian dual citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was back in an Iranian court facing more charges. This time relating to a protest long ago outside the Iranian embassy and an interview with BBC Persia. Legally, the judge had…
12 December 2020. Save the date. It could be the most crucial in the planet’s history… On that day, the UK will host a virtual UN Climate Summit. It’s already been dubbed “the sprint to Glasgow”, as organisers seek to…
Recently, Extinction Rebellion (XR) has resurfaced in the news as they resume acts of non-violent civil disobedience activism. Seventy-seven people were arrested in the wake of their blockades of national and regional newspaper printing presses earlier this month. While effective…
It has been three years since the Grenfell Tower fire. 72 people lost their lives and hundreds more were displaced. It’s also over a year since Theresa May, in her resignation speech on the steps of Downing Street, claimed pride…
As the UK’s daily hospital death toll hovers around the 1,000 mark, the prime minister recovers from coronavirus, and PPE equipment provision varies so wildly that some nurses take to wearing bin bags, it’s hard to stay positive. But, in…