Columns / Currents

Ethiopia and Eritrea reignite rivalry, turning the famine-struck north into a proxy front, by Samuel Getachew.

Twin police shootings expose Canada’s hidden crisis of racialized violence, by Changiz M Varzi.

The Bangladeshi student activist-turned-politician, by Richard Swift.

Finland’s cold-border law chills asylum rights and gives Europe a hard new line, by Bethany Rielly.

Vietnam’s jubilee parades clash with the lingering poisons of war, by Tom Fawthrop.

Starmer courts Trump at the expense of UK rights and digital protections, by Anita Bhadani.

US gun pipeline fuels Haiti’s gangs while Washington looks away, by Steve Shaw.

Starbucks’ slaves; Canal clash; Tracking a crackdown; Deeper dictatorship; Long legacy; Royal negligence.

Gaza aid ship blasted as Israel extends its siege beyond the shoreline, by Paula Lacey.

Kolkata’s century-old trams battle property tycoons and political apathy to stay in motion, by Ritwika Mitra.

Kashmiris pay the price while Delhi and Islamabad posture for power, by Adil Hussain and Adil Hussain .

Bank Backs Down; Cruelty Curbed; Justice In The Aegean; Paula Lacey.

After years of deadly conflict, Manipur’s fragile calm masks deep divisions—resignation and repression offer no clear path to peace without real reconciliation, writes Manu Moudgil.

Tenants score a rare win in Barcelona’s housing crisis as public buyout halts evictions—but at a steep price that still rewards the speculators, by Richard Matoušek.

Abdul-Malik’s recent efforts to interfere with Israel’s war machine that has got the world suddenly talking about the Houthis, writes Richard Swift.

As US aid vanishes overnight, Ecuador’s migrant communities are left stranded—caught between political posturing abroad and collapsing support at home, by Cameron Baillie.

Five years on, the world pays the price for forgetting Covid-19’s legacy of inequality, denial, and a global health system still unprepared for what’s next, by Nick Dowson.

Myanmar’s military cements its rule online with sweeping VPN bans and surveillance powers, silencing dissent and tightening control, by Laura O'Connor.

As Erdoğan tightens his grip, LGBTQI+ activists and journalists face arrest, surveillance and a wave of repressive laws in Turkey’s ‘Year of the Family’, by Rohan Stevenson.

Hanging by a thread; Spain’s spycops; Cycles of conflict; Crytobros; Crime wave.