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The earth just moved...

The earth just moved...

In the wake of the election results, Chris Brazier reflects on a momentous night in British politics.
India's ‘Smart City’ plan stumbles over slums

India's ‘Smart City’ plan stumbles over slums

India's $15 billion grand project to transform cities into models of tech and infrastructural innovation is already in trouble.
UK General Election: What are the foreign policy implications?

UK General Election: What are the foreign policy implications?

Voters are caught between choice and media disinformation, writes Mark Curtis.
Why May’s approach to social mobility is incoherent

Why May’s approach to social mobility is incoherent

Simon Chandler analyses the Tory manifesto and May’s speeches, and explains why their efforts to tackle inequality are a facade
Finding home: the homelessness crisis across the West

Finding home: the homelessness crisis across the West

With house prices and rents soaring, can there be a remedy to homelessness? Wayne Ellwood investigates.
How do you break the homelessness cycle?

How do you break the homelessness cycle?

Sian Griffiths reports on a no-nonsense movement which is reshaping traditional solutions to chronic homelessness

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New Internationalist's picks for films of the month

Machines; The Other Side of Hope: what should be on your watchlist this month.

India's ‘Smart City’ plan stumbles over slums

India’s $15 billion grand project to transform cities into models of tech and infrastructural innovation is already in trouble. Nimisha Jaiswal investigates

Homelessness – the facts

Everything you need to know about homelessness, from this month’s magazine.

How do you break the homelessness cycle?

Sian Griffiths reports on a no-nonsense movement which is reshaping traditional solutions to chronic homelessness

Domestic violence: victims are left on their own in Pakistan

The lack of laws is leading to a scary rise in domestic violence in some of Pakistan’s provinces, writes Mahwish Qayyum

UK General Election: Why Theresa May’s approach to social mobility is incoherent

Simon Chandler analyses the Tory manifesto and May’s speeches, and explains why their efforts to tackle inequality are a facade

Finding home: Lack of affordable housing is a crisis across the West

With house prices and rents soaring, can there be a remedy to homelessness? Wayne Ellwood investigates.

Blogs

An interminable trial for tweeting – when will it end?

Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Rajab was arrested 365 days ago for tweets against the war in Yemen, and his 13th hearing of his endless trial is tomorrow, writes Sophie Baggott.

UK general elections: the result viewed by an outsider

Indian writer Mari Marcel Thekaekara was in Britain during the elections, and writes her impression of campaigns and results.

Corbyn’s achievement sends us a rare, resounding message: hope

As May forms an unholy alliance with the DUP, there is a sense that a movement has been born, writes Jamie Kelsey-Fry.

The earth just moved…

In the wake of the election results, Chris Brazier reflects on a momentous night in British politics.

UK General Election: Youth #votingforhope

Young people don’t vote, we’re told. It’s time for you to prove them wrong, writes Jim Cranshaw.

UK General Election: Security means nothing without freedom

Prime Minister Theresa May doesn’t just put UK citizens at risk, but actively undermines the tools that maintain and expand our rights as citizens, writes Tom King.

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