A painting of Alex played by Malcolm McDowell in Stanley Kubrick’s film of A Clockwork Orange.
Alex DeLarge/Flickr
On the centenary of Anthony Burgess’s birth – A Clockwork Orange had a profound influence on the cultural and political landscape.
EPA/Pasquale Bove
The former PM has resigned as leader of his party in the hope of returning to the top job. But it hasn’t quite gone to plan.
via shutterstock.com
In this episode we look at historical visions of the future and how accurate they were, the future of work, and what it's like to predict the future for a day job.
An activist takes part in a protest in December 2015 to mark the third anniversary of the Delhi bus gang rape.
EPA/RAJAT GUPTA
The alleged sexual assault of a well-known actress in Kerala has sparked outrage and exposed serious gender issues at the heart of the society.
Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA
Some Olympic venues have become withered husks – but it’s not all bad news.
Macron’s stumble on colonialism.
Yoan Valat/EPA
The presidential candidate stoked anger on the right by calling French colonialism a ‘crime against humanity’.
Wikimedia Commons/Office of Presidential Libraries
The beleaguered new president is driving a wedge between his citizens and the media. Nixon would have been proud.
Signing the Treaty of Rome in 1957.
Wikipedia
It’s almost as though Europe saw Brexit coming when the Treaties of Rome were signed in 1957.
The struggle to be together.
Shutterstock
Supreme Court upholds controversial immigration rules for families introduced in 2012. It means families will have to earn a minimum income to bring over spouses from abroad.
EPA/Maxim Shipenkov
Vladimir Putin’s aggressive nuclear strategy threatens to unpick decades of careful negotiation.
Anger pits young people against police following an accusation of police brutality.
EPA/Etienne Laurent
An officer is under investigation for rape, a young man is in hospital, and people want answers.
Cristina Nixau via shutterstock.com
The story of Trevor Thomas.
Who are you going to call?
EPA/Felipe Dana/AP/World Press Photo
IS has proved very adept at fending off massive conventional forces – but that doesn’t mean crack private security teams would do any better.
Blaming fathers for the problems of their children doesn’t work.
Natalia Deriabina/Shutterstock
Fathers aren’t to blame for all of their childrens’ problems.
The four main candidates.
EPA
Just a month after moving into the Élysée Palace, the new president will face the country’s parliamentary elections.
Trump and Shinzo Abe making friends.
EPA Images
Beware the ‘clasp and yank’.
EPA/Mike Nelson
Thanks to the US’s polarised politics, presidents beloved abroad are controversial at home.
Afghans protest at a refugee camp in Athens in early February.
Orestis Panagiotou/EPA
There are double standards underlying the difficulties faced by Afghan asylum seekers in the West.
Michael Flynn’s departure has left the White House under a cloud.
EPA/Jim Lo Scalzo
Losing a national security adviser is one thing – weeks and months of slow-drip crises is quite another.
Daniel Blake.
Joss Barratt
Meet the real Daniel Blakes.
EPA/Michael Reynolds
As with so many other areas of policy, Trump vacillates from one pole to another on Israel.
Nathan Williams
Another ‘last chance’ has been missed. But while talks disintegrate, islanders are just getting on with peace in practice.
‘I wish this book was a smart phone.’
Shutterstock
Dating apps are convenient – but they lack the sensuality craved by Victorian aesthetes.
Reforms to the benefits system have faced severe delays and left people struggling.
via shutterstock.com
Fewer than half a million people are currently receiving the new, simplified benefit according to newly released data.
Ewan Munro
Pre-referendum polling suggested South Asian voters were quite pro-Remain, but more recent data tells another story.