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Meet the Rastafarian lawyer fighting for cannabis freedom in South Africa. Interview by Alice McCool.

A lack of legal protection combined with toxic prejudice leaves migrant workers in Lebanon between a rock and a hard place. But the struggle for rights is under way and, as Fiona Broom reports, it’s coming from the ground up.

The patented breakthrough drugs for hepatitis C are so expensive that even the wealthiest of nations strictly ration them. Now desperate patients are going where their governments will not, by defying the system to get their meds from India. Sophie Cousins reports.

If job-killing robots will play a big role in our future, inequality could get turbo-charged. The counter-proposals on the table barely scratch the surface, argues Nick Dowson.

Self-driving tractors and the internet of cows – welcome to the world of precision agriculture. Jim Thomas lays out the vision driving corporate giants into a merger frenzy.

Industrial robots are being put to work on a massive scale in China. Taking the case of electronics giant Foxconn, Jenny Chan considers what an automated future holds in store for human workers.

Robots aren’t likely to replace postal workers in Japan, but they may soon be looking after grandma – or sharing the bed. Christopher Simons explores some of their unique impacts.

We urgently need to slam the brakes on automated violence. Noel Sharkey dispels some myths about the newest arms race. Illustrations by Simon Kneebone.

Think of computer code as a new and powerful accomplice to legal code – the rules by which society finds itself governed. Who gets to enforce it? asks Audrey Watters.

Technology is changing society at breakneck speed but considerations of human impacts lag far behind. Dinyar Godrej sketches out some of the key political battles ahead.

British singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore’s acclaimed new album The Counterweight was written during the turbulent events of 2016. She spoke to Danny Chivers about music, politics and crying on stage.

Black Orchid String Band; Dream Theory in Malaya; Road to Mandalay; My Pure Land; Protest: Stories of Resistance; The Great Regression; Good Money

The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk; The Gurugu Pledge by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel; Walking on Lava by The Dark Mountain Project; Out of the Wreckage by George Monbiot.

At Least Wave Your Handkerchief At Me by Saz’iso; Frost on Fiddles by Frigg.

Tramontane directed and written by Vatche Boulghourjian; Kills on Wheels directed and written by Attila Till.