Confused by the last few days of headlines about Redditors bankrupting hedge funds via the…
Lit.January 28, 2021
On Thursday, The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) released its report after its lengthy…
Lit.October 31, 2020
Brazilian health authority Anvisa announced on Wednesday that a volunteer on the AstraZeneca & Oxford…
Lit.October 23, 2020
On October 11th, the Taliban launched an attack on Lashkar Gah, in the South of…
Lit.October 21, 2020
On 13th October, several countries accused of human rights abuses were elected to the UN…
Lit.October 15, 2020
On 15th June 2020, Chinese and Indian troops clashed over disputed territory in the Galwan…
Lit.October 3, 2020
The release of the live-action version of Mulan last week, a recreation of the animated…
Lit.September 20, 2020
The UK government has announced proposals to renege on an agreement it forged less than…
Lit.September 12, 2020
On 13th August, Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reached a historic agreement to…
Lit.August 17, 2020
Mass protests have followed Sunday’s election in Belarus, which election officials claim was won by…
Lit.August 14, 2020
The fact that the release of the Intelligence and Security Committee's report on Russian interference…
Lit.July 27, 2020
Much of the work of the UK Parliament happens in committees, which are specialist sub-groups…
Lit.July 17, 2020
Sex trafficking is human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation. This includes sexual slavery,…
Lit.July 15, 2020
On 5th July, the Sunday Times published the findings of its investigation into the upsurge…
Lit.July 8, 2020
The Kefala system, the system of migrant “sponsorship”, is employed by countries in the Gulf.…
Lit.July 1, 2020
Since 2017, the Chinese government has detained many people from a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority…
Lit.June 27, 2020
After Eritrea signed a peace agreement with its neighbour Ethiopia in 2018, there were hopes…
Lit.June 24, 2020
On 19th June, 1865, in Galveston, Texas, Union army General Gordon Granger delivered the federal…
Lit.June 21, 2020
Maria Ressa, a journalist in the Philippines who edits online news site Rappler, was yesterday…
Lit.June 16, 2020
In the last fortnight, the Chinese government has voted on, and accepted, a motion that…
Lit.June 3, 2020
In mid-April President Donald Trump announced that the US would halt its funding of the…
Lit.June 1, 2020
American writer Gregg Easterbrook once wrote “torture numbers and they’ll confess to anything” - and…
Lit.May 20, 2020
We explain why the Labour Party is being investigated for institutional antisemitism, and what will…
Lit.May 12, 2020
What are clinical trials – and why should I care? Clinical trials test medical treatments…
Lit.April 30, 2020
Comparing countries' COVID-19 mortality rates this early in the pandemic can lead to problems. Here…
Lit.April 16, 2020