Constantine Louloudis: ‘Coaches must give athletes time to think about their future’
Rio 2016 Olympic gold medallist Constantine Louloudis believes that coaches must do more to help athletes prepare for life after sport, echoing comments made this week by legendary swimmer Michael Phelps, who demanded more...
Italian election ends in political confusion
Italy hardly went into Sunday's general election humming with positivity. The eurozone’s third-largest economy has the EU’s highest percentage of young people not in education, training, or work according to Eurostat; a national debt...
Interview with Natalie Bennett of the Green Party
Natalie Bennett is the former leader of the Green Party. In this interview, she talks to Jericho about the policy successes of the party, the need for electoral reform, the prospects of a "Progressive...
Miguel Hernando Torres Umba: “I didn’t realise the extent of the problem until I...
Plata or plomo?
This is the question Miguel Hernando Torres Umba asks during his critically acclaimed production Stardust, a visceral education of the complex realities of the narcotics trade.
Plata or plomo, silver or lead, your...
Terror transformed: from foreign fighters to homegrown terrorism
Since the fall of Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State (IS), in October of last year, declarations of the “defeat of the Caliphate” have dominated headlines across the globe. World leaders were united...
Can the Iraq election help break the cycle of violence?
A common Iraqi saying goes: ‘the bad is behind us and the worst is yet to come.’ This adage has developed from the cyclical violence which has torn the country apart both before and...
The end of ‘pacification’: What next for Rio de Janeiro’s favelas?
On 26 April, Rio de Janeiro’s Federal Intervention Committee decided to close half of the state’s 38 Police Pacification Units (UPPs). Rio's UPPs were a key element of ‘pacification’, a public security policy targeting favelas...
Namibia: African success story or elite propaganda?
On 25 July 2018, Samuel Shali Nghihepa, a sergeant in the Namibian Police Special Reserve Force Division, murdered his ex-girlfriend, Alina Kahehongo, in full view of her colleagues at a local supermarket in Windhoek, Namibia's...
Does the decline of local journalism threaten British Democracy?
In the United Kingdom local journalism is in trouble. Since 2005 more than 200 local papers have closed and the number of regional journalists has halved to around 6,500 as of February 2018.
This...
US-China Trade War and the Future International Order
The current trade war between the United States and China has become one of the defining features of this year's news cycle. Tariffs have been threatened, then imposed, and economic changes have followed across...
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The Plastic War
From the UN in 2017 to the EU in 2018, we have become accustomed to organisations and countries declaring ‘war on plastic...
Populism to Pensions: Love or Hate for Putin’s New Policy?
It has been close to a year since the 2018 March presidential elections in Russia, which saw Vladimir Putin enter his fourth...
2019: Year of the Vegan?
The word ‘vegan’ was coined in 1944, after members of the Leicester Vegetarian Society became frustrated with the group’s refusal to consider...
