There’s a growing business that expands a service which used to be available only to a privileged minority to low-income communities and offers them previously unaffordable transportation options. It is challenging existing monopolies and rent-seeking tycoons by undermining exploitative practices. It’s providing flexible jobs to thousands, in particular students and people who would otherwise face […]
Hillary Clinton has won the Democratic nomination. We have known this since the Associated Press released their delegate count on Monday night, taking her over the finish line, but the results from the six states which voted on Tuesday confirm it beyond any doubt. Most notably, it has just been announced that Clinton won California, […]
Today marks eight years exactly since Hillary Clinton conceded to Barack Obama in the 2008 primaries. And she has just become the first female nominee for President of the United States. BREAKING: @AP finds Clinton reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination for president pic.twitter.com/e473F0G4vX — The Associated Press (@AP) June 7, […]
Donald Trump has received his most high-profile endorsement to date: North Korea. An editorial in DPRK Today, a North Korean state-run propaganda newspaper, called Trump a “far-sighted presidential candidate”. It also praised his proposals to withdraw US forces from South Korea and meet directly with Kim Jong Un, referring to Trump as a “wise politician”. The […]
I will start by saying that I know next to nothing about the ins and outs of Premier League football. Like the rest of the UK, I was cheering for Leicester’s miracle victory this season, and I know the off-side rule when I see it. But when it comes to the endless gossip surrounding transfers, […]
Is Bernie Sanders actually a democrat? By this point, the Vermont Senator’s political affiliation has become common knowledge: he is, as we all know, a Democratic Socialist. But as the presidential primary has dragged on well past its best-before date, the conflict between those ideologies has become apparent. And socialism is winning. Hillary Clinton has […]
The battle of genetically modified foods is being waged in a mire of confusion and bad science. Scare stories over “frankenfoods” and “mutant crops” have insidiously manipulated the framing of the debate into a crisis over the definition of “natural”, away from the far more pertinent question of how to combat malnutrition and promote food […]
Shortages have become so common in Venezuela they scarcely make the international news anymore. But over the last few years, the list of things Venezuelans lack has been growing steadily longer. Reports of endless queues for basic goods like bread and toilet paper gave way to more alarming concerns about un-staffed hospitals running out of […]
No trip to Brazil is complete without a visit to the Iguassu Falls. It might seem an odd choice to skip the Amazon or leave Rio early just for some waterfalls – do it anyway. Take as many connecting flights as you must to make it to the tiny town of Foz do Iguaçu, which […]
Dilma Rousseff has fallen. After more than 20 hours of debate, Brazilian Senators voted by 55 to 22 to suspend the President. Rousseff now faces a full impeachment trial, which could take up to 180 days, and is unlikely to be reinstated before the Olympic Games begin in Rio de Janeiro in August. It is […]
Remember three weeks ago when the Brazilian lower house of Congress voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff? It looked pretty certain that Dilma was done for, paving the way for the Senate to complete the impeachment process this Wednesday. The Vice President, Michel Temer, was waiting eagerly in the wings to take over as soon as […]
This is a message to Bernie Sanders supporters. All of you – from Rosario Dawson and Susan Sarandon to the thousands of keyboard warriors out there on twitter who are “feeling the Bern” – listen up. Your candidate cannot win the Democratic nomination. This is not gloating or wishful thinking. It is maths. To win […]
“You’ll see more wildlife on the road to the Pantanal than on an entire tour in the Amazon,” my guide Igor Gaspareto tells me. I am reassured by this. With five days to spare, and both the Amazon and Pantanal several plane journeys away, I could only choose one. I picked the less well-known Pantanal […]
First Hillary Clinton’s victories didn’t count because they were all in the “Southern” states, with primarily non-white voters. Then it was all about the unjust advantage she had in terms of funding, until it transpired that Bernie Sanders’ campaign had actually raised just as much as Clinton’s. From the moment he entered the race to yesterday’s […]
From motorcycle parts, to flour, to fuel, to aspirin, we’ve been documenting the turmoil as Venezuela rapidly runs out of just about everything and spirals into economic collapse. But this week’s story of shortages surpasses them all. Now Venezuela is running out of money. Actual money. As in banknotes. The country can no longer afford […]
BHS was systematically loaded with debt, then sold off to a company which stripped any remaining value and took it into administration. In a different context, such cartoonish behaviour would be redolent of despots in third world countries, or villains in satirical novels, rather than real life in 21st-century Britain. For critics of capitalism, the terrible […]
Now is the time to visit Brazil. Infamous until recently as one of the most over-priced destinations in the world thanks to protectionism and inefficiency, political instability has sent the real crashing down. Today, one British pound will buy you around 5 reals (up from 3.5 in 2013), and if you avoid the month of […]
What goes on when the movie is over and the lights come up? How does the film come to be projected onto the silver screen in the first place? Step into The Flick, a run-down movie theatre in Massachusetts, and see life through the eyes of the three disaffected employees who lurk in the shadows […]
It’s hard not to feel sorry for Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s struggling president who on Sunday was defeated in an impeachment vote in Congress. It’s not that Rousseff is innocent, or even a good president. She is neither of those things. During her administration, she has pursued protectionist big-state policies which have decimated Brazil’s competitiveness, squandered […]
Melania Trump (née Knauss), the third wife of business tycoon and walking controversy Donald Trump, has mostly kept out of the spotlight during the Republican primary season. But in a CNN town hall featuring the Trump family this week, the Slovenian former-model was introduced formally to the American public, and to the world. It is […]
