Category: Politics & Current Affairs

You'd never find someone calling a rat cute or a champion of French cuisine before Ratatouille. With one 2007 Pixar movie, they changed from disease ridden, unhygienic street vermin into the new go-to pet for a kiddy's Christmas present.

Browsing the internet in the not too distant future, we may begin to come across bulky virtual bouncers asking for ID. They’ll be hired by the UK Government and will block the main thing the internet was made for...online porn.

The North Korean rumour mill is churning with whispers that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winners could be two of the most controversial politicians to grace the world stage.

The news that Shamima Begum, the Bethnal Green schoolgirl who left Britain to join Islamic State, will have her citizenship revoked has been met with jubilation in some quarters.

Last month, City welcomed Ken Light, a social documentary photographer whose striking collection, Texas Death Row, gives a haunting insight into the American penal system. Last year 13 men were put to death in Texas, a figure amounting to more than half of the people executed in the entire country.

Iranian dogs and their owners are suffering, largely due to President Donald Trump re-establishing sanctions on Iran’s oil industry. In an attempt to de-westernize society, the conservative government issued a ban on dog walking last week.

The prospect of US military intervention in Venezuela seemed more likely this week, when John Bolton, the US national security adviser, appeared at a press conference with the line ‘5,000 troops to Colombia’ scrawled on his notepad.

Today marks the opening of the EU settlement scheme for UK-based EU citizens and their non-EU citizen family members holding a valid biometric residence card. Citizens of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland cannot apply during this test phase.

Ukrainian citizens have been disappearing for four years now, and associations like Media Initiative for Human Rights, a Ukrainian NGO, accuses Russia of human rights abuses and illegal detention.