A piece examining the significant impact of new, highly partisan independent publications on the UK election and the failure of the right-wing press to destroy Jeremy Corbyn.
A profile of George Osborne and his renewed lease of political life as editor of the Evening Standard. The piece contains insider comment including a memorable line they report the former chancellor throwing out about Theresa May – that he won’t stop until she is “is chopped up in bags in my freezer”.
The tragic story of the fate awaiting the Irish children born out of wedlock who ended up at St. Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Tuam.
Whilst we look for alien life on other planets, this piece examines ctenophores – creatures closer to home that are “profoundly different from any other animal on Earth” – so much so in fact that they may be on an entirely different evolutionary path to their planetary cohabitants.
This piece unpicks a recent scientific paper that offers a new slant on the Fermi paradox. The paradox addresses the apparent inconsistency in the vast scale of the universe and the lack of signs of life outside planet Earth. The new slant is in essence that we need to significantly adjust upwards the possibility that we are in fact alone and there is no paradox at all. The author quotes Carl Sagan in considering the implications of humanity’s solitude – “In all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life..the Earth is where we make our stand.”
A journalist spent four months undercover as a guard at a prison in Louisiana. He recorded the experience in this shocking article, accompanied by secretly recorded video footage of prison life.
An immersive multimedia account of the long Maoist revolution and conflict in Nepal.
An extraordinary essay of photographs and words, tracking killings arising from Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal anti-drug crackdown.
A look deep inside the Libor scandal that reads like a Hollywood clich of corporate malfeasance.