Fri 17 July 2026: The uranium extracted from the Shinkolobwe mine in Congo, was the core of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Africa’s wealth was turned into a weapon in someone else’s AI infrastructure, the electric vehicle boom, and a defence sector with no ceiling on its appetite all run on the […]
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Mon 13 July 2026: For the BJP-VHP-RSS holy trinity, the donations scam in the Ram temple has grown into more than just a risk of electoral loss. It has also become a loss of ideology and of face. I am in a cab in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh, where our family village home […]
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Fri 10 July 2026: When it comes to covering the Middle East, News Corporation has two guiding principles. The first is that it supports Israel, which means it opposes any nation, organisation or individual that doesn’t. This support is decades old and it’s unwavering, even in the face of global condemnation of Israel for the […]
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Fri 03 July 2026: On June 30, an unofficial deadline invented by anti-migrant vigilantes came and went. No court had issued it and no statute authorised it. It travelled, instead, by WhatsApp, dressed up in the clipped, bureaucratic language of an official notice, and for weeks it was treated by frightened people across this country […]
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Tue 16 June 2026: Everyone loves a spectacle. And nothing surges adrenaline through our veins quite like sport. But it’s more than just sport — it’s theatre, cinema, empire. Today’s sporting stars, not unlike the gladiators of ancient Rome, perform under the floodlights of fan frenzy, turning every contest into a game within a game, […]
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Sun 14 June 2026: The roar of the crowd echoes through a massive, circular arena. Thousands of spectators lean forward in their seats, their hearts pounding in sync with the action below. In the center of the stadium, elite physical specimens push their bodies to the absolute limit, fighting for glory, pride, and survival. This […]
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Sun 14 June 2026: Let me paint you a picture. A Zimbabwean man sells vegetables outside a taxi rank in Durban. He has been doing it for three years. He pays his rent. He sends money home. He minds his business. One afternoon, a crowd gathers. His stall is destroyed. He is lucky to escape […]
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Fri 12 June 2026: Footage of a horrific knife attack in Belfast began to circulate on social media on Monday evening. A Sudanese asylum-seeker in his 30s, who entered the UK in 2023, has been charged with attempted murder. Meanwhile, the far-right was quick to exploit the situation to further an anti-immigration agenda. Violent unrest […]
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Thu 11 June 2026: There is a peculiar genius among certain Muslim intellectuals in the West: they can detect Islamophobia everywhere except where naming it might cost them something. In Paris, they are forensic. In Delhi, incandescent. In Gaza, thunderous. In Washington, fluent in the grammar of empire. But when Muslim political agency is crushed in Pakistan, when Imran Khan […]
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Tue 02 June 2026: An exclusive investigation by Middle East Eye last week revealed that both US and Israel were coordinating to remove Jordan’s custodianship over Islam’s third holiest site. This is not a diplomatic manoeuvre. It is the culmination of a systematic campaign to erase the Islamic presence in Occupied Jerusalem and a direct […]
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