A friend sends me a beautiful photograph of a banner hanging in France, with the streets full of protesters, where it reads: “The bourgeoisie will prepare for war, the youth prepare the future”. It is this constant tension between the…
The Washington Post Women are protesting in Poland for access to free and legal abortion services WARSAW, Poland — Women plan street demonstrations in more than 20 Polish cities and towns Thursday to protest the lack of access to free and legal…
October 18, 2026 — 5:00am I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Australia. I was ecstatic. It felt like a dream finally coming true. My mother’s brother had migrated under the assisted passage scheme in the early 1960s; her mother and…
The Times of India A couple of recent court judgments may check the march of the reservation juggernaut On October 9, the Madhya Pradesh high court invalidated the 2019 law enacted by the Kamal Nath-led Congress government, raising the quota for other…
The Times of India By AK MerchantAs the current international order fractures under the combined weight of rising inequality, geopolitical fragmentation, democratic erosion, climate instability, and a fraying respect for international law, we must confront a foundational crisis: pervasive malaise…
Almost 10 years ago, I fled regional Western Australia and an abusive relationship, taking my children with me and carrying little more than a bag of clothes each. I had no savings, no car and no certainty about our future. But…
October 13, 2026 — 7:00pm I spend many nights walking the streets of Melbourne. You wouldn’t know it though as I’m not yelling abuse or sleeping off substances outside shops. The city has been my home, for want of a better word, since early…
October 7, 2026 — 5:00am You may have heard that Australia’s birth rate has hit a new low of 1.48. That’s almost one and a half babies per woman, when we need just over two to stop our population from going backwards. I’ve tried valiantly…
and not-so-young people who are camping in the squares or who sympathize with those camping there to demand a right that is being denied to you, the right to have a roof over your heads: I would like to tell…
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