#throwback to a favourite story of mine that I published last year for @AvauntMagazine about an abandoned Lebanese fairground turned military base, and the lives of those living near it.
https://t.co/3RcXsu1wb9
If global shipping were a country it would be the sixth largest producer of greenhouse gases. A look at some of the pioneers in the race to make boats more environmentally friendly. https://t.co/N9Iz4V3HHu
‘He was stranded, and in some ways as far away from life as is possible.’ Is it possible to convey the elemental challenges of scaling a mountain in a theatre? @DavieGreig discusses adapting one of the most famous survival stories of all time. https://t.co/TSVQbJmz50
Eight years after Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was killed, Libya remains in a state of murderous chaos. @KimSengupta07 analyses the legacy he left behind. https://t.co/nh9G26ky4D
The Arapaima is a unique fish: it can survive up to 24 hours outside water, eat small mammals and has scales that are piranha-proof. It’s also facing extinction. A look at a @ROLEX Award-winning scheme that may prove key to saving the Amazon’s eco-system. https://t.co/mOyd751ptm
‘Zhakslik has a unit of knowledge that’s of little value anywhere else on earth: How thick does the ice have to be to take the weight of a camel?’ Life in the former fishing village where eco-disaster means the coast now stands more than 100km away. https://t.co/EGJxpu6WR4
The master of alternative perspectives talks about bloodsucking, Brexit and the prophetic power of storytelling. Avaunt meets @markgatiss. https://t.co/iyRtKPr56F
I have a feature on women's football in the Middle East in the new issue of Avaunt magazine, which is beautifully put together and full of interesting stories https://t.co/05s6m2dNbS
The master of alternative perspectives talks about bloodsucking, Brexit and the prophetic power of storytelling. Avaunt meets @markgatiss. https://t.co/iyRtKPr56F
This video (reduced to a 17 second gif) created by British psychological professor Richard Wiseman demonstrates the power of perspective in creating illusions. It’s titled, “Assumptions” https://t.co/NzDWEktlkh
Once again the fate of the Kurds hangs in the balance. This little-known story of a formidable Kurdish female tribal-leader from more than a century ago is a reminder of their long and fraught relationship with the West. https://t.co/GV85eYTvcQ
A shift in the balance of world power means that China and Russia are currently more aligned than at any point since the 1950s. In his book ‘Mirrorlands’, Ed Pulford takes a journey along the border between the two superpowers. https://t.co/yEZONncM7i
La Sape: Sophy Roberts travels to the Republic of Congo to meet Brazzaville’s Sapeurs – the men who see style and elegance as an ideology. https://t.co/DOU2GB3H2L
At the end of last year Vladimir Putin declared war on Russia’s rappers – yet hip hop’s obsession with machismo and dominance finds inevitable echoes within the political establishment. @richardjgodwin investigates a schizophrenic relationship. https://t.co/yKxS99hJlA
Oscar Niemeyer's abandoned modernist fairground in Lebanon came to epitomise both the worst excesses of war and hopes of renewal afterwards. https://t.co/fxGiNtzsGp
Michael Ignatieff yesterday: "The all-absorbing question of Brexit has meant that Britain has been absent from any European debate about democratic freedom." Our story from April touching on Budapest's leading university being forced out of the country.
‘We’re on the Road Eternally’: @M_Ignatieff discusses night-fishing on Tito’s yacht, his friendship with Bruce Chatwin, and fighting for democratic freedom in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary. https://t.co/h7xa8bQP4w
‘We’re on the Road Eternally’: @M_Ignatieff discusses night-fishing on Tito’s yacht, his friendship with Bruce Chatwin, and fighting for democratic freedom in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary. https://t.co/h7xa8bQP4w