Democracy

Website crash excludes young people from registering for EU referendum
Activism

Website crash excludes young people from registering for EU referendum

Computer says, ‘No’ — Remain vote dealt major blow as tech problems affect hundreds of thousands of young voters who left registration until the last minute.

Written by: Saoirse O'Leary

How radical publishers in Hong Kong are pissing off the Chinese government
Activism

How radical publishers in Hong Kong are pissing off the Chinese government

Disappearing booksellers and sex scandals — The strange story of Mighty Current publishing takes another turn, as UK national Lee Bo becomes the fifth employee to go missing.

Written by: Josh Gabert-Doyon

How coverage of the Tory conference showed me the ugly face of British media
Activism

How coverage of the Tory conference showed me the ugly face of British media

The press is rotten - here’s why it must change — Media activist Fiorella Lecoutteux was among the 80,000 strong demonstration at the annual Conservative conference in Manchester. But the coverage in the press sidelined the protestors, raising important questions about whose interests the media serves.

Written by: Fiorella Lecoutteux

Could Jeremy Corbyn become the world’s first crowdsourced premier?
Opinion

Could Jeremy Corbyn become the world’s first crowdsourced premier?

Public schoolboy politics on the way out — Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will carry out his first Prime Minister's Questions with suggestions crowdsourced from supporters. Has a new way of doing politics begun?

Written by: Michael Fordham

Amy Goodman on giving voice to the ignored and unheard
Activism

Amy Goodman on giving voice to the ignored and unheard

Truth to power — As the face of Democracy Now!, journalist Amy Goodman helps give voice to perspectives that usually go unheard, exposing the veil of deception dropped by corporations, politicians and their cohorts in the press. But the real battle, she says, has yet to be won.

Written by: Amy Goodman (interview by Andrea Kurland)

Reflections on Nigeria’s historic presidential election
Photography

Reflections on Nigeria’s historic presidential election

from documentary photographer Jason Andrew — Fears of Boko Haram, vote rigging and political violence couldn’t stop Nigerians from voting for the country’s first democratic transfer of power.

Written by: Alex King

Is Hong Kong's Umbrella Man the new Tank Man?
Activism

Is Hong Kong's Umbrella Man the new Tank Man?

Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Protests — "People's Republic of Amnesia" author Louisa Lim on Umbrella Man and Tank Man and how the spirit of Tiananmen Square has influenced the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests.

Written by: D'Arcy Doran

Why We Protest
Activism

Why We Protest

Hong Kong — Hong Kong has seen its biggest street demonstrations in a decade in a potential prelude to an Occupy protest in the former British colony's city centre. Huck asks the protesters why they are taking to the streets.

Written by: Richie Benson

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