Politics

The Spycraft Revolution

A story examining the changing nature of spycraft in a world where carefully developed back stories can be torn apart with a few database queries, and where geolocation data spewed out by mobile devices makes dead-letter boxes instantly obsolete.

Europe from Left to Right

An analysis of recent election data in over 80,000 regions in Europe. Data journalism on an impressive scale that seeks to analyse the political landscape in countries across the continent.

Viktor Orbán’s War on Intellect

This story posits the theory that Viktor Orbán’s assault on Central European University is part of a wider strategy of “liquidating the intelligentsia, draining the public of education, and molding a more pliant nation.”

Why Budapest, Warsaw, and Lithuania split themselves in two

A look at how EU funding is distributed to help less economically developed regions catch up with their more economically developed counterparts. Some countries are redrawing their internal boundaries in order to gain better access to this funding for less developed areas adjacent to their richer capitals. It’s an insightful piece with superior quality data visualisation deployed to tell the story of economic development in Europe.