In political and civic discussions, terrorism is more often than not unveiled as the tipping point of a fuse. The attack dominates headlines, governments gather emergency teams and public debate quickly narrows to queries on security, policing and retaliation. Violence strikes its lightning. Yet this perspective is misleading. Terrorism is rarely born the second an… Continue reading Before the attack — the making of a terrorist organisation
Working for an NGO as an ESL teacher from July 2025-March 2026 was the most fulfilling and meaningful work I had ever done. A break from my legal career, it was an opportunity to directly work with and learn from incredibly intelligent women who were survivors of genocide, extremist ideologies, war and poverty. However, despite… Continue reading The moral ambiguity of working in an NGO
Border externalisation — the outsourcing of migration control to states beyond a country’s borders — has quietly become a defining feature of modern border policy. Marketed as “partnerships” and “capacity building”, it in fact creates a transnational system of delegated violence, where accountability evaporates and suffering becomes someone else’s problem. The EU–Libya arrangement reveals this… Continue reading Responsibility laundering — how democracies outsource border violence
On 3 January 2026, US forces abducted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, claiming he was controlling drug operations through Venezuela. As the Venezuelan government changed hands, and the new leader complied with American interests in oil, one country was left to face devastating energy problems and ongoing threats: Cuba. Since Venezuela supplied most of Cuba’s crude… Continue reading Cuba through time
Whilst the UK Parliament is focused on banning phones from schools for under-16s, a far more urgent dimension of digital safeguarding is being neglected and misunderstood: AI-generated sexual abuse material. In late December 2025 and early 2026, a pivotal moment in the fight against online sexual abuse emerged, not through a legislative breakthrough, but through… Continue reading The uncontrolled proliferation of AI-generated sexual abuse material — why regulatory promises fail victims
The conflict between the United States and Iran that has unfolded in 2026 is increasingly understood less as a single, linear war with one decisive battlefield and more as an extended struggle of coercion, deterrence and intermittent force. In this form, the “war” is not defined only by strikes or dramatic confrontations, but by sustained… Continue reading The US–Iran war in 2026 — how escalating pressure shapes America, Iran and the rest of the world
School shootings are often described by the media as singular eruptions of violence that momentarily fracture public life before disappearing back into political deadlock. The focus is usually placed on the instantaneous horror — the death toll, the shooter, the blunders of law enforcement and the debate over gun control that follows. Yet this framing… Continue reading The crisis of school shootings isn’t only violence — it’s the redefinition of childhood
In political examinations and studies, the overturning of Roe v. Wade is often framed as a singular tear — an abrupt legal interference that removed a constitutional protection in response to shifting ideological pressures. Some present it as a decisive turning point, a moment in which the trajectory of reproductive rights was abruptly altered. Others… Continue reading After Roe — the fragmentation of American freedom
“Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt” — Juvenal The Bangladeshi Election On 12 February 2026, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was newly elected in Bangladesh and the people echoed on internet halls and streets that “the Gen Z revolution prevailed”. Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule, which was marked with unruly bloodshed and… Continue reading The psychology of a revolution — why people do ‘nothing’ in the West!
Over the weekend, a few of us indulged in a stretched-out debate. It started when one friend explained how she didn’t have the same conversations with her coworkers on the media and politics as she could in university. For her, environment mattered when it came to having intellectual discussions, which she found existed superfluously in… Continue reading An Oxbridge education doesn’t automatically make you an intellectual
