The legal standards for military intervention are complicated and highly specific. It’s not clear an attack on Syria would meet them.
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Thousands of young people have got on their bikes to make a political statement in London’s streets. The government would do well to pay attention.
Twenty years since the Good Friday Agreement, it remains easier to rely on old animosities than lead people towards peace.
Does immigration lead to more crime? Here’s what the research says.
Saddled with a repressive government that cuts their wages in the name of austerity, Iraq’s Kurds are demanding something better.
British politics is ancient, tribal and ossified. It won’t make room for a new party without putting up a fight.
The Good Friday Agreement was choreographed 20 years ago to maximise support for the deal.
In a series of short audio clips, four academics talk about the key figures involved in making the Good Friday Agreement of April 1998 possible.
How online child abusers are categorised is stopping the proper protection of victims.
We’re often less careful when talking to people we know well than we are when we talk to strangers. That can be a mistake.
Nothing the world has done has stopped Bashar al-Assad’s regime from using chemical weapons – but it’s imperative to keep trying.
The satirical opposition group has failed to enter the Hungarian parliament, but it has scored a victory of sorts.
A third landslide victory leaves the right-wing leader on a collision course with Europe.
A day after agreeing a deal on resettling African asylum seekers with the UNHCR rather than forcibly deporting them, Israel announced the deal was off.
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To mark the 20th anniversary of the agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland, this episode of the podcast looks at its history, its legacy and the impact of Brexit on its future.
Twenty years after the Good Friday Agreement, churches have tended to marginalise the mavericks who helped bring about peace.
The citizens of Northern Ireland were ready for peace long before national leaders signed on the dotted line.
Sharing data about users’ HIV statuses is bad enough. But why collect it in the first place?
The British government is not facing up to the serious challenges it faces.
Some 20,000 Sinti and Roma died in Auschwitz alone.
After the US invasion brought their dictator down, Iraqis’ everyday lives were marked by chaos and violence.
Racist behaviour in universities manifests itself in nuanced and covert ways.
There have been more than 50 murders in London already in 2018, and more in February and March than in New York.
The good news to this disturbing figure is that a strategy is in place to address some serious problems, including an end to child poverty by 2030.
How Vladimir Putin is using hostility towards Russia to bolster his own position at home.