NI 562 - July/August, 2026. The new #space race - A new space race is set to worsen global inequality and extend conflict. We need to return to seeing space as a place for all humankind, argues Nick Dowson.
https://t.co/X7eLdbdPS5
NI 561 - May/June, 2026. Trade Unions - From 1926 to 2026. A century on, Bethany Rielly and Decca Muldowney examine Britain’s only general strike, a walk out with a scale and impact that remains unprecedented in the country’s history.
https://t.co/OmfvaOiUyR
NI 560 - March/April, 2026. #AI the people behind the machine - Imagery generated by artificial intelligence has become the beloved aesthetic of today’s dictators, argues Decca Muldowney. A robust media is needed to combat misinformation and its miseries.
https://t.co/j8ktdNYNMV
NI 559 - January/February, 2026. The new nuclear arms race - Could the threat of nuclear #war be closer than ever? Amy Hall explores how we got here and the pathways out of the crisis.
https://t.co/htg0SRHAOH
NI 558 - November/December, 2025. #Gaza, genocide and resistance - Gaza-born journalist Ramzy Baroud traces how Palestinians have turned survival into a struggle for dignity, history and freedom, with Gaza at the heart of the resistance.
https://t.co/XCLdloUty6
NI 557 - September/October, 2025. The global far right - In an age of crisis, despair is the currency of the global far right. How, asks Bethany Rielly, can we turn this reactionary tide?
https://t.co/gzJIECikWS
NI 556 - July/August, 2025. @UN at 80 - The modern failures of the United Nations are not an aberration – but a product of its imperial roots, argues @conradlandin. So how can we create a functioning system for global co-operation?
https://t.co/Kt6LgVBxzs
NI 555 - May/June, 2025. Can critical #minerals save the world? - They are touted as our way out of climate chaos and essential for making the things we use, from mobile phones to electric vehicles. Vanessa Baird sets out to investigate critical minerals.
https://t.co/X5JqNzy7EG
NI 554 - March/April, 2025. Indigenous sovereignty in #Australia - After the defeat of a 2023 referendum on the inclusion of a First Nations Voice in parliament, Zoe Holman traces the claims to self-determination made by Indigenous peoples in Australia.
https://t.co/HpxapF5THE
NI 553 - January/February, 2025. Guns and power - People across the world are standing up to the power of the arms trade. Amy Hall explores its threat to life and democracy. #ArmsTrade
https://t.co/RFodSguIMB
NI 552 - November/December, 2024. #Disinformation - Although far from a modern phenomenon, the potency of misinformation has increased in the digital age. To tackle it, we need a systemic response that goes further than debunking one lie at a time.
https://t.co/BuaFBFsu10
NI 551 - September/October, 2024. #Election year - Britain’s general election saw the rightwing Conservatives swept out, but the shallowness of the victorious party’s support points to an existential threat to dominant parties across the world.
https://t.co/hAS2VuJXEN
NI 550 - July/August, 2024. #Abortion: Why is your body still a battleground? - The global trend towards liberalizing abortion is being overshadowed by a newly emboldened anti-rights movement that wants to erode bodily autonomy. Bethany Rielly reports.
https://t.co/JoeRt7pXUm
NI 549 - May/June, 2024. Debt: which way out? - Rising costs, Covid-19 and austerity have pushed too many countries – and households – into unmanageable debt. Amy Hall asks how we got here, and finds a movement getting organised.
https://t.co/tPUw3un7xY
NI 548 - March/April, 2024. South Africa 30 years later - Can South Africa ever fully shake off the shackles of apartheid? Conrad Landin asks whether the country’s historic genocide case against Israel could lead to a reckoning at home.
https://t.co/bNuxDxqnnJ
#SouthAfrica
NI 547 - January/February, 2024. Climate capitalism - How can we prevent an unjust transition? As the clean economy gets into gear, Nick Dowson asks whether a market-focused, subsidies-led approach will just mean more of the same.
https://t.co/JRoFnkPVn5
#ClimateJustice
NI 546 - November/December, 2023. #Spying on dissent - Bethany Rielly explores the chilling impact of the Spanish state’s intrusive surveillance tactics against Catalan civil society. Is there a chance of justice?
https://t.co/HDSHxU4u3T
NI 545 - September/October, 2023. #Decolonize now! Confronting the impact of empire is not about getting stuck in the past, writes Amy Hall. It’s vital to how we build a better future.
https://t.co/jAGoQ9zsof
NI 544 - July/August, 2023. #Palestine from occupation to uprising. A new far-right Israeli government’s meddling with the supreme court has Jewish citizens up in arms. Zoe Holman looks at the so-called ‘peace process’.
https://t.co/yRVFBvoHZz