A new world order
How global politics is being reshaped by the war in Ukraine, the rise of China, resource scarcity and climate change.
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A new age of global war
Europe believed it had banished war for good. But Russia’s aggression in Ukraine shows we must prepare for armed conflict…
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Dispossession and defiance: how Hong Kong’s struggle explains our world
Two new books on China’s “world city” tell a far richer, more nuanced story than colonialism, then capitalism and Beijing’s…
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England on fire? Stephen Ellcock and the need for radical, noisy art
The curator discusses confronting the government’s crackdown on protests with “something truly wonderful”.
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We are already at war with Russia
War with Russia is not just a matter for Ukraine. Putin understands this. The West does not.
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Why access to nature is broken, not the millennials who trespass
Ninety years on from the trespass of Kinder Scout, the protection of nature requires an even greater right to roam.
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Mary Colwell: the woman behind the UK’s new nature GCSE
In a conservation landscape riven by conflict and opposing interests, the education campaigner insists the new qualification must be “for…
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Why Putin’s war in Ukraine turned into a military disaster
The Russian president is a prisoner of his own delusions – and the similarities with Hitler are hard to ignore.
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