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Why do people readily accept potentially unjust decisions by their government?
The leader of the centre-left Frente de Todos alliance won a surprise victory in primary elections in August.
The Labour leader wants to call a vote of no confidence, form a short-term government and then quickly call an election. Can it be done?
The Peterloo massacre was one of the worst atrocities committed on British soil, but across the empire there were many such acts.
The NATO-led military intervention in Libya has just fuelled more violence.
As well as an attack on the working classes, Peterloo was also an episode of violence against women.
Daphne Caruana Galizia was investigating several corruption scandals when she was murdered in 2017. The government continues to avoid serious investigations into the allegations.
As calls are made to ban swearing at work, in public and even at home, a linguist comes out fighting for harsh language.
Around 2.2 billion gamers regularly sit at home, many playing action-packed war games, which fuse virtual boot camps with special operations aimed at eliminating enemies.
Tensions in the Gulf are a stark reminder of the choices ahead for the UK on security cooperation after Brexit.
Voters complained of being turned away from polling stations in the European elections, and local teams are struggling to keep registers up to date on tight budgets.
The UK is facing a population crisis with birth rates at an all-time low.
What Beijing could learn from the British response to the 1967 Hong Kong riots.
Targeting the families of protestors is highly effective as a means of control.
Does there need to be a conviction for a genocide to be recognised by the law?
Second-wave feminist Shulamith Firestone was mocked when she published a 1970 manifesto advocating artifical wombs, but her arguments about the exploitation of reproductive labour remain timely.
Presenting himself as a man of the people is a major gamble for this prime minister.
The real cost of footballs transfer markets: how fake agents traffic African boys with dreams of playing in Europe’s biggest leagues.
If MPs aren’t sitting in parliament to block no-deal Brexit, can it go ahead anyway?
Voters have less faith in the Labour leader’s suitability to lead than they did after his 2017 successes.
Some of Northern Ireland’s biggest problems have nothing to do with leaving the EU, but all anyone talks about now is the backstop.
Not all mass shooters are white supremacists, but they are nearly all men.
Police crackdown operations are likely to exacerbate the structural inequalities that can influence criminality in the first place.
Northern Ireland looms even larger an issue for Brexit as US Irish Americans wield influence.