“Jeremy Corbyn doesn’t exist in history now, and all the purges [of the Labour party], the manipulation of the rules, and the straight aggression has been unbelievable.”

In recent decades schools around the world have become increasingly obsessed with grades, competitiveness and measurable and comparable results, while other important aspects of the education of our future citizens are being [...]

“Each group exaggerates the crimes it has suffered, and minimises the crimes committed by its members or institutions. There is not even a consensus on what to call the war in Bosnia: civil war, war of aggression, war of religions.”

Every year, hundreds of thousands of ordinary Iranians travel to Armenia for a short break from the social and political suppression in their country, despite an ongoing conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

“There are some amazing sides to the use of the internet and social media: never before have we had access to so much information and culture. I think it’s important not only to control how many hours we spend using technological devices but, above all, to be discerning about what kind of content [...]

Thirty years after the killings of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, Sicilian civil society is still working hard to keep saying “no” to the mafia.

Riadh Ezzawech has devoted his life to the practice and dissemination of stambeli, a musical genre born centuries ago with the arrival in Tunisia of enslaved people from Sub-Saharan Africa. In the last four decades, much has changed and, today, stambeli is in serious danger of becoming [...]

Vietnam’s nearly 4,500-year-old tradition of sericulture continues to provide a livelihood to numerous families. This time-honoured tradition is mostly carried about by women.

Efforts are being made, the world over, to save the treasures forged by history.

Writers, directors and playwrights break with the idealised narrative of motherhood to give real mothers a voice.