Kenya police brutality – it will take more than laws and public anger to change behaviour: Kenya has once again been reminded of brutality within its police force. Two events in mid-June 2025 pointed to the grave challenge that Kenya must confront to reform the service. The first was the death in police custody of …
‘There has never been a more dangerous time to take drugs’: the rising global threat of nitazenes and synthetic opioids: US Drug Enforcement Administration images accompanying a warning about the emergence of nitazenes in Washington DC, June 2022 USDEA In the early hours of September 14 2021, three men parked in a quiet car park …
The Brutalist: an architect’s take on a film about one man’s journey to realise his visionary building: For anyone involved in architecture, it’s no surprise that a film focusing on a visionary architect and his profession demands the epic dimensions of cinematography, drama and a running time of 215 minutes, as in Brady Corbet’s The …
Hard Truths: Mike Leigh’s bleakly comic take on depression offers no easy answers: If you were to ask a computer programme to come up with a title for a new Mike Leigh film it could do no better than Hard Truths. Echoing the title of his very first film in 1971, Bleak Moments, Hard Truths …
Sudan is the world’s worst modern war – what has happened and what it’ll take to rebuild: Sudan’s war has been raging since April 2023. The country was on a bumpy road to democracy after mass uprisings in 2019 ousted long-time dictator Omar al-Bashir. This all came to a halt when troops from the Rapid …
Why you should never take nutrition advice from a centenarian: Lizavetta/Shutterstock It’s a cliche of reporting on people who reach 100 years of age, or even 110, to ask them some variation of the question: “What did you do to live this long?” Inevitably, some interesting and unexpected answer is highlighted. Fish and chips every …
Why billionaires should take the lead and declare their own emissions cutting targets: Samedan airport near Davos is dedicated to private jets. Thierry Weber / shutterstock The annual glitzy gathering of world leaders and billionaire CEOs in Davos, Switzerland, allows us to marvel once again at the environment-wrecking effects of private jets and lavish lifestyles. …
Grenfell should have been a wake-up call – but the UK still doesn’t take fire safety seriously because of who is most at risk: In March 2023, a fire in Tower Hamlets, east London, claimed the life of Mizanur Rahman, a 41-year-old father-of-two from Bangladesh. Five fire engines and 35 firefighters attended the call to …
Why did a far-right MP take a fire extinguisher to a Jewish menorah just as Poland’s new government was being voted into power?: In an attack caught on video, a member of the Polish parliament (Sejm) used a fire extinguisher to put out the Hanukkah candles on a menorah positioned in a public area of …
Building African cities that cope with climate shocks – experts outline what it will take: The international climate change negotiations began almost three decades ago when many were still hesitant to accept that human activities were changing the planet. Now the scientific evidence is unequivocal. Climate change is a major threat to our wellbeing, the …
New Argentinian president Javier Milei promises to ‘take a chainsaw’ to country’s crippled economy: When Javier Milei’s opponent in the 2023 Argentinian elections conceded victory on Sunday night it was obvious that the maverick libertarian economist was going to win big. And he did: once counting finished on Monday, Milei had taken 56% compared to …
Climate complacency: study finds even the most informed people would rather take the easy option: Energy efficient lightbulbs are useful – but more radical actions are available. New Africa / shutterstock It is often argued that all we need to do is raise awareness of a “global emergency” and rising eco-anxiety means individuals will “do …
Rwanda plan: Rishi Sunak has insisted on pushing ahead – here’s where he could take it next: The UK supreme court has ruled against the government’s plan to deport some asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing. But this isn’t the end of the story – a version of the plan is likely to resurface in …
Cricket World Cup 2023: what it’ll take for South Africa to win: Second-ranked South Africa is the only African team to make it to the semi-finals at the 2023 Cricket World Cup. After being banished from the international game in 1970 because of apartheid policies, the country began playing in the tournament in 1992 once …
Lucy Letby investigation: UK corporate manslaughter cases tend to be complex and can take years to reach a finding: Police have launched a corporate manslaughter investigation at the Chester hospital that employed Lucy Letby, a former nurse recently convicted of murdering seven babies in the hospital’s neonatal unit in 2015 and 2016. Corporate manslaughter charges …
Women take fewer risks because they think about losing more than men, research suggests: Roman Tarasevych/Shutterstock One difference between men and women has been well documented by economists, psychologists and biologists – that women are tend to be more cautious and take fewer risks. Evidence has also been gathered about how this difference affects women’s …
Suella Braverman warns of ‘unmanageable’ numbers of asylum seekers – the data shows we hardly take any: A migration “hurricane” is coming, Suella Braverman has warned. Speaking at the Conservative party conference, the home secretary claimed that without action by the Conservatives, millions more people will come to Britain, “uncontrolled and unmanageable”. The idea that …
What would you take with you? Why possessions matter in times of war and displacement: Refugees from Ukraine arrive in the Czech Republic. Tomas Vynikal/Shutterstock In 2022, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine resulted in Europe’s largest refugee crisis since the second world war. By March of that year, about a quarter of the country’s total population …