Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see Anonymous If you’re anything like my parents, you probably wouldn’t even understand most of the content that floods my social media, no matter how hard I try to avoid it. Here’s a recent example…
Simon Tisdall As the war enters its fifth year, it’s time for Europe to take the fight to Putin on its own terms and tell Trump to get lost Viewed from Europe, the US’s failure to defend the people of Ukraine against Russian aggression is the greatest and most consequential of a host of recent…
Nagaland has no political opposition to peace. After a decade of accords, talks, and broken deadlines, the only remaining obstacle to resolving the Naga issue wears a suit and sits in New Delhi. By Oken Jeet Sandham Let us be honest about what has happened. For more than two decades, the Government of India has…
By Oken Jeet Sandham For nearly three decades, the Naga people have lived with the promise of peace. Yet, 29 years after the present phase of negotiations began, the political settlement remains elusive. What started as a hopeful departure from armed conflict has gradually become a prolonged process marked by delay, ambiguity, and unresolved contradictions….
Elle Hunt As fewer people choose to pair up, let alone marry, it could be that our species’ mating patterns are moving closer to the natural order Monogamy, you may have heard, is in crisis. Fewer people are in relationships, let alone opting to be in one ’til death. And even those who have already exchanged vows…
The sad truth is that we are witnessing a legacy of the over-indulgent late queen: an organisation unable to meet today’s challenges Stephen Bates Curious that the Epstein scandal, which has caused such an overwhelming furore in the US, should so far have done more to damage the British royal family than the US presidency….
Alex Pretti had courage and empathy. This, not Maga’s conception of male power, is what we must teach young men Alexander Hurst The first thing that grabbed me about the Rapture’s 2011 song It Takes Time to be a Man was the warbly, analogue fuzz of its recurring guitar and piano riff. Once that drew me in,…
Fiona Sturges The stars get big audiences and complex characters to develop. We’ve lucked out in this golden age of streaming shows, and so have they Shrinking, the TV series about Jason Segel’s Jimmy, a grieving psychotherapist who can’t stop telling patients what he really thinks, seems pretty innocuous on paper. From Frasier to In Treatment to Sex Education, there’s no…
The world is entering a new era of competition — not over weapons or territory, but over Artificial Intelligence. This silent race between the United States and China is already reshaping economies, governance, warfare, media and public life. Its impact will not remain confined to global superpowers; it will directly affect countries like India and…
Jonathan Liew The human impulse to steal has been accelerated by AI, inequality and our political leaders – with profound consequences Last week I discovered that an article I wrote about the England cricket team has already been copied and repackaged, verbatim and without permission, by an Indian website. What is the appropriate response here?…